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U.S. GDP was up 4.3% in the third quarter, stronger than expected. YoY GDP was up 3.7%. The U.S. economy bounced back following the two big ...

2005 Hurricane Season Ends Today as the Worst in 150 Years Thirteen hurricanes formed in the Atlantic, starting with Dennis in July and endi...

US paying Iraqi press to run favourable stories As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi news...

Co-conspirators’ largesse extended to many In a plea agreement with prosecutors, Cunningham named four people who had conspired with him to...

Costly Withdrawal Is the Price To Be Paid for a Foolish War Maintaining an American security presence in the region, not to mention withdraw...

The Commerce Department reported that new home sales rose by 13 percent in October to a record 1.424 million and more than expected. The big...

Moving right along. Seven Trillion two years ago -- eight Trillion today!

The Retail Federation said that U.S. shoppers spent $27.8 billion over the holiday weekend, up 22% YoY. Sales of previously owned U.S. homes...

Shipping lines raise charges by 12pc: Effective Dec 1, 2005 Justifying the move, the ‘notice to trade” points out that all member lines are ...

Newmont considers a bid for Placer Dome "In India, the largest gold market in the world, demand year over year to June was up 47 per c...

Brown's gold sale losses pile up as bullion price surges In due course, Brown sold off 300 tonnes at just $ 275 an ounce - close to a 20...

U.S. Farmers Use Pesticide Despite Treaty Ruiz and Jorge Fernandez, two California farmworkers, say they saw plenty wrong in the strawberry ...

Pension Officers Putting Billions Into Hedge Funds Faced with growing numbers of retirees, pension plans are pouring billions into hedge fun...

Math + science = innovation, but US lags in the equation Behind these moves lurks the fear that many young Americans are abandoning math and...

Newmont Mining's gold predictions MOORE: Five hundred US dollars an ounce? LASSONDE: Oh well passed that. I believe that by early next ...

How powerful is the Federal Reserve? With Bernanke about to take over, time for a reality check

'Black Friday' tepid; Wal-Mart a winner The official holiday shopping season appears to have gotten off to a lukewarm start, accordi...

Brokerage Firm Hack Endangers Investors St. Louis-based Scottrade, one of the nation's largest private online stock brokerage houses, ha...

Scenes From A Bush Thanksgiving Dubya pouts, Cheney scowls, no one brings pie -- and why is Rove looking at Barb that way?

Consumer prices in Germany were down 0.5% in November.. YoY Hong Kong 's GDP was up 8.2% in the third quarter. The European Union wi...

Foreign central banks add U.S. debt in week-Fed Foreign central banks purchased more U.S. debt in the latest week, investing more money in T...

Chart of the day New York Stock Exchange "Volume" Advance Decline Line (Cumulative Daily Volume Breadth) This chart is generated ...

The stock market was supported by a positive reading on the University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment. The index increased to 81.6 ...

Ben Bernanke, said Congress should limit the massive holdings of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in an effort to limit any danger...

How the Media Can Restore Credibility They should be accessible. "Isolation impairs accountability," says Philip Seib, author of ...

China stocks copper in Shanghai, prepares to cover LME positions China is believed to have to scramble to meet the LME's requirement to ...

China's welfare push to help economic rebalancing White House used 'gossip' to build case for war U.S. Press for Reform Prompts ...

The New-York based Conference Board said its index of leading indicators rose 0.9 to 137.9 in October after a downwardly revised 0.8 percent...

We Must Hold the Scoundrels Accountable Bush’s public support has plummeted. A majority of Americans believe Bush lied about Iraq having wea...

Senate committee passes spyware bill A U.S. Senate committee has approved a bill that would outlaw the practice of remotely installing softw...

How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball' The senior BND officer who supervised Curveball's case said he was aghast when he w...

Global shipping: Challenges ahead As on January 1, 2005, the world trading fleet was made up of 46,222 ships, with a combined 597,709,000 gr...

The World's Best Ethical Travel Destinations Our most notable and unexpected result is that Latin America emerges as the leader in ethic...

M(3)urder Will Out! Thus, the abandonment of M3 could disguise this Reichsbank-like response to America’s hypothetical future ills for some...

China copper trade woes send prices to new peaks Officials for the centre and the bureau have told Reuters that any short positions were mad...

The food you eat may change your genes for life Szyf says his study shows how important subtle nutrients and supplements can be. "Food ...

Survey Finds Deep Discontent With American Foreign Policy Tortured men look like 'Holocaust victims Pentagon To Probe Feith's Role I...

The European Central Bank is ready to raise interest rates moderately, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet said on Friday, sending a clear si...

China to lose 100 million dollars from copper futures bet China stands to lose at least 100 million US dollars on the London Metal Exchange ...

Climate Shift Tied To 150,000 Fatalities Group Seeks Further Inquiry in Frist's Stock Sales New Disclosure Could Prolong Inquiry on Leak...

U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow said that dividend and capital gains tax cuts put in place by U.S. President George W. Bush have created s...

CIA camps row heats up in Europe Senate Panel Does Not Extend Tax-Rate Cut Big Oil may face a $5 billion levy Document Says Oil Chiefs Met W...

Has gold lost its war chest status? Trends indicate that international central bank's store of gold could fall further in future as yiel...

Ultra-sensitive microscope reveals DNA processes The novel device allows users to achieve the highest-resolution measurements ever, equivale...

US Consumer Price Index for October was up 0.2% vs. 0.0% expected and ex food and energy it was, as up an expected at 0.2% . YoY it was up ...

French gold sales allows FX reserves diversification Strauss-Kahn declined to say in what currencies the BOF would invest the proceeds of ...

Reserve bank may up gold reserves - Mboweni The central bank is very comfortable holding these gold reserves because of the metal's war...

Brazilian farmers' dreams dry up The so-called "Drought Polygon" is a nearly 390,000-square-mile area that includes nine north...

The fog of war: white phosphorus, Fallujah and some burning questions The controversy has raged for 12 months. Ever since last November, whe...

Ben Bernanke, the president's chief economist, told senators Tuesday he'll continue the policies of Alan Greenspan if confirmed as F...