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U.S. Jobless claims increased 3,000 last week to 322,000. Home resales fell to a 6.97 million seasonally adjusted annual rate last month, a...

The Conference Board's consumer confidence index increased from 98.3 to 103.6 in December, its highest level since Hurricane Katrina. Th...

ABC News and the Washington Post said their Consumer Comfort Index rose to -10 in the week ending Dec. 25 from -11 the prior week. The Chica...

U.S. Durable goods orders were up 4.4% in November, stronger than expected. Excluding transport, orders were down 0.6%. The University of Mi...

Chief executives are optimistic about the direction of the U.S. economy despite high energy prices and rising interest rates, a monthly surv...

The U.S. economy grew at a 4.1% annual rate in the third quarter, lower than the 4.3% rate initially reported in November, the Commerce Depa...

U.S. Consumer confidence, improved last week, ABC News and the Washington Post said on Tuesday. The U.S. producer price index fell 0.7% in N...

JibJabs Year-End Round-Up !

The Symbiosis Trap Stephen Roach

The Conference Board's leading economic indicator for Mexico was unchanged in October following four months of gains, the U.S.-based pri...

The U.S. current account gap narrowed in the third quarter to $195.8 billion. YoY consumer prices in the Euro zone were up 2.3% in November....

U.S. industrial production was up 0.7% in November and up 2.8% YoY, more than expected. Capacity utilization rate increased from 79.8% to 80...

The U.S. trade deficit grew to a record $68.9 billion in October, as crude oil prices surged and exports dropped by the most in four years. ...

The price of corn adjusted by the CPI (Consumer Price Index)

Blue-chips jumped and the broader market inched higher after the Fed boosted the Fed Funds rate as expected, while hinting that an end to th...

The federal government's budget deficit rose sharply in November as spending raced ahead of tax receipts. The Treasury Department report...

The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment increased from 81.6 to 88.7 in December, more than expected. The USDA's 20...

Jim Rogers likes commodities JIM ROGERS: If you look at most agricultural commodities - nobody has been planning new acreage or new plantati...

U.S. jobless claims were up 6,000 last week to 327,000. The U.S. Department of Energy said that underground natural gas supplies were down...

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation to make sure that millions of Americans will not be forced to pay the al...

Cheers! It's party time as Japan economy recovers Some 63 percent of Japanese workers in a survey plan to let their hair down at traditi...

Housing Bubble Bursts in the Market for U.S. Mortgage Bonds Bonds backed by home loans to the riskiest borrowers, the fastest growing part ...

The Labor Department said that business productivity was up an annual rate of 4.7% in the third quarter, the best quarterly gain in two year...

Five Risks Stephen Roach The annual year-end forecasting ritual has begun. For us, it is always sparked by the extension of our forecast ho...

The Institute for Supply Management's services index fell to 58.5 in November from 60.0 in October, below forecast of 59.0 President B...

Is Mankind a Mistake? When we are functioning as individuals – whether at work, in the marketplace, among friends, or driving on the freeway...

The Greatest Debt-Beat President in History In a letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson asked how, "one generation of men has a rig...

G-7 Central Bankers Pledge Not to Hurt Growth Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Central bankers from the world's richest nations sought to defuse cr...

The Federal Reserve is not yet finished raising interest rates and must fight any temptation to adopt policies that would stoke inflation , ...

Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream Researchers on a scientific expedition in the Atlantic Ocean measured the strength of the curre...

China worries local doctors can't spot bird flu "I am not worried about governments at various levels covering up an epidemic,...

The little yellow god The dull truth is much less bullish for gold. Investors have put money into a wide range of metals, and precious metal...

Asian central banks likely to increase gold reserves It is only a question of time for Asian central banks to follow and buy in gold: they h...

The U.S. Commerce Department said that personal incomes rose 0.4% in October and consumer spending went up by 0.2%. YoY the core rate of ...

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