Nationawide customers with FlexAccount will be charged when using their debit cards at cash machines outside UK.
The fee consists of a commission charge of 2% and a £1 flat fee, and it will come into effect from November 1. ...

Apparently, the biggest problem for the US economy remains the unemployment, as it went up again in July.
The joblessness rose from 9.5% in June to 9.6% in July, showed data of 57 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. ...

The German business confidence showed an unexpectedly high rise of 106.2 in July compared to 101.8 in June, reported the Ifo Business Climate Index. This is the largest amount the business confidence has jumped with in the past 20 years.
 "This increase is the largest since German reunification. ...

The 16 eurozone countries demonstrated increased industrial production for the third consecutive month in May. Production went up by 0.9% from last month, which is the same as the increase in April, according to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics office.
The percentage was, however, lower than the forecasted 1.2%. ...

Greece is taking drastic measures to pay back its debts - it is going to start selling some of its islands or offer long-term leases on them.
The country has 6,000 islands as 227 of them are populated. The island Nefsika, for example, is on sale, costing 15 million euros, while others are as law as 2 million.
The protests and the country’s debt weakened the economy to a point where the German politicians encouraged Greece to start selling its islands, historic buildings and artworks. ...