- (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Sunday that United States will not hesitate to attack Iran with military force to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon...
- Only two (now 7) advertisers have cut ties with the "Rush Limbaugh Show" after he called an activist for women's contraception a "slut and prostitute"...
advertisers who have not rejected Limbaugh include Carbonite, a online computer backup system.
- Pork production in China, the top soybean importer, will climb to 51.6 million metric tons this year, up 4.2 percent from a year earlier, as the government increased insurance incentives for farms, a U.S. Department of Agriculture unit said.
The USDA Thursday forecasted that U.S. framers will plant 94
million acres of corn. That would be up 2.3% YoY, and would be the most corn planted
since 1944.
- Informa cut its estimate of Brazil’s soybean crop by 2m tonnes to 68m tonnes
- Canada's economy grew 2.5 % in 2011, down from 3.2 % YoY
- Italy's debt rose to 120.1% of GDP last year from 118.7 % in 2010, the highest level since 1996.
- The country's economy grew 0.4% last year compared to 1.8% the previous year
- A further 112,269 Spaniards lost their jobs in February, the seventh consecutive month during which unemployment rose in Spain.
- Japan's jobless rate rose to 4.6% in January.
- Moody's downgraded Greece long term sovereign credit rating from "Ca" to "C" .
- The iShares MSCI Peru Index (EPU) has given back to investors in 2012, outperforming gold and copper exchange traded funds.
- Exchange traded funds that hold bullion are rivaling global central banks in their accumulated gold stores.
- PIMCO Debuts First Actively Managed ETF (TXRT): the Bond fund is managed by Bill Gross and will invest in all sectors of the fixed income market.
- (FT) US corporation tax rates hit 10-year low.
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