InvestmentTools.com

U.S . Personal income was up 0.6% in February and U.S. consumer spending rose 0.6%. U.S. Core rate of personal consumption expenditures rose...

The Conference Board index of U.S. consumer confidence dropped from 111.2 to 107.2 in March, weaker than expected. German business confide...

Bloomberg Special Report - Phantom Shares relinked

U.S. New home sales were weaker than expected down 3.9% from January's pace. This # is dimming hopes for a rebound in the housing market...

U.S. Leading indicators were down 0.5% in February, six of ten indicators showing a decline. U.K . Retail sales were up 1.4% in February, m...

Agrifood Giant Nearly Rivals Carmakers On Emissions Producing one kilo of cut veal produces as much greenhouse gas emissions as travelling 2...

The Federal Reserve kept the federal funds rate unchanged at 5.25%. The Mortgage Bankers Association said its index of mortgage application...

U.S. New housing starts jumped 9% in February, following a slump in January, but still down 28.5% YoY. The Bank of Japan kept interest ra...

Chart of the day The Percent of ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds) on our list of 317 funds that are up in the last 20 days.

iRack

The National Association of Home Builders index of homebuilders' sentiment dropped from 39 to 36 in March. China 's central bank r...

YoY U.S. consumer prices rose 2.4% in February, more than expected. The U.S. Federal Reserve said that industrial output increased 1.0% in ...

The producer price index rose 1.3% in February, while the core rate rose 0.4%, the Labor Department reported. The U.S. Treasury said that f...

The Mortgage Bankers Association said that its index of mortgage application increased 2.8% last week, the highest level this year. Consum...

U.S. Retail sales rose 0.1% in February, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. The International Coffee Organization increased its est...

Japan changed its economic growth figures for the fourth quarter to an annual pace of 5.5 %, the strongest growth in three years. U.S. Senat...

The Coming Entitlement Meltdown The National Taxpayers Union reports that Medicare will consume nearly 40% of the nation's GDP after sev...

Japans machinery orders rose 3.9 percent. U.S. Initial jobless claims fell by 10,000 last week, following the previous week’s gain to a 1...

The Federal Reserve said consumer credit increased at an annual rate of 3.2% in January to $2.41 trillion. Australia' s GDP rose 1.0% Q...

The yen also rises A generally stronger yen may spread a little discomfort

U.S. Factory orders were down 5.6% in January, the biggest monthly drop in over six years. Dow-Jones Newswires reports that Brazil is cons...

The Institute of Supply Management's index of U.S. services dropped from 59.0 to 54.3 in February Global causes may on balance have boo...

U.S. Personal incomes were up 1.0% in January, consumer spending was up 0.5%. The Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing index ...

The Bureau of Economic Analysis changed its estimates of fourth quarter GDP growth sharply downward, to 2.2% compared with a previous estima...

YoY Eurozone money supply grew at an annual rate of 9.8 percent in January. Shanghai’s composite index fell 9%. U.S. Durable goods orders...

US mortgage crisis goes into meltdown Panic has begun to sweep the sub-prime mortgage sector in the United States after the bankruptcy of 2...

Blow for beer as biofuels clean out barley One consequence, he said, could be a long-term shift upwards in the price of beer . Barley and ho...

Greenspan told a business conference in Hong Kong the U.S. economy may be about due for a recession. Japan' s Chief Cabinet Secretary S...

Central Banks Diversify From Dollar, Survey Shows Central banks are still investing in riskier assets as they chase greater returns on yiel...

While you slumber, your brain puts the world in order Ever wondered why sleeping on a problem works? It seems that as well as strengthenin...

U.S. jobless claims were down 27,000 to 332,000 YoY German GDP was up 3.5% in the fourth quarter. The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) said t...

Corn Surges to 10-Year High as Rains May Limit U.S. Planting Corn rose to a 10-year high in Chicago, extending this year's 12 percent r...

U.S. Consumer prices were up 0.2% in January and up 2.1% YoY. Excluding food and energy, prices were up 0.3% in January and up 2.7% YoY. U....

Canada' s CPI was up 0.1% in January and up 1.2% YoY, Canada 's index of composite leading indicators was up 0.5% in January. Prod...

Anti-MRSA silver pyjamas trialled Pyjamas and bed linen made with silver cloth are being trialled in a hospital to help combat the MRSA sup...

Feeding your brain: new benefits found in chocolate Funded by candy maker Mars Inc., which provided a specially formulated liquid cocoa con...

Children's TV 'is linked to cancer, autism, dementia' "It is the number of hours and the age at which they start which pr...

The U.S. producer price index was down 0.6% in January. Excluding food and energy costs, prices were up 0.2% in January. U.S. housing star...

U.S. Industrial production fell 0.5% in December, the most in over a year. The price of goods imported to the United States fell 1.2% in Ja...

Bernanke told the Senate the economy should grow modestly this year and he expects inflation will continue to ease. Gross domestic product ...

The U.S. trade deficit widened to a record fifth straight year in 2006. The Department of Commerce announced today that December exports of ...

The U.S. government posted a $38.24 billion budget surplus in January, up 82.4 % YoY. Australia reduced its inflation estimate for 2007 f...

A General Theory of Stupidity by Bill Bonner Newton’s "Inverse Square Law" holds that gravity – and many other things – decreases ...

MoM Canada 's unemployment rate rose from 6.1% to 6.2% in January. The U.K. ’s trade deficit for 2006 totaled 55.8 billion pounds -- ...

Robert Fisk: Iraqi insurgents offer peace in return for US concessions Al-Jeelani suggests the United Nations, the Arab League or the Islami...

The U.S. Commerce Department said that wholesale sales were up 1.8% in December. Wholesale inventories were down 0.5%. (Financial Times) Th...

U.S. Nonfarm business productivity had an annual gain of 3.0% in the fourth quarter, more than expected. The U.S. savings rate has fallen t...

Legacy of Radiation Illness Stirs Objection to Nevada Bomb Test The federal government reassured the townspeople they were in no danger as i...

Soybeans Prices Rise on Concern U.S. Acreage to Shift to Corn (Bloomberg) -- Soybean prices rose to an 19-month high, extending a rally tha...