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U.S. Personal incomes rose 0.7% in March and consumer spending was up 0.3% -- less than expected. The core personal consumption expenditure...

China Shipbuilders, Rivaling U.S. in WWII, to Cut Freight Costs April 30 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of shipping coal and iron- ore is about to...

U.S. GDP rose 1.3% in the first quarter, weaker than expected due to the slow housing sector. YoY real U.S. GDP rose 2.8%. The GDP price de...

S&P/Case-Shiller: Home Price Declines Show No Signs of Abating The S&P/Case-Shiller Index, which is one of the best gauges of the ho...

U.S. Jobless claims were down 20,000 last week to 321,000, the lowest in a month. The U.S. DOE said that underground supplies of natural g...

Are GM Crops Killing Bees? ..But that could soon change. Since last November, the US has seen a decline in bee populations so dramatic that...

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U.S. durable goods orders rose 3.4% in March. U.S. new home sales were at an annual rate of 858,000 in March up 2.6% MoM, but weaker than e...

The National Association of Realtors said that U.S. existing home sales were at an annual rate of 6.12 million units in March, down 8.4% fro...

Yen Climbs After Standard & Poor's Raises Japan's Debt Rating ``This is a sign the economy has returned to normal, following a...

U.K. Retail sales increased 0.3% MoM and 4.5% YoY. Canadian retail sales rose 0.1% MoM and up 5.2% YoY. The USDA said there were 11.644 ...

House OKs Bill to Give Investors Say on Executive Pay Bloomberg -- The U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure to give shareholder...

The Conference Board's U.S. index of leading indicators was up 0.1% U.S. Jobless claims were down 4,000 last week to 339,000. Japan...

Global Commodity Price Boom May Last Decades Longer, RBA Says (Bloomberg) -- Emerging economies' demand for resources may sustain high ...

The U.S. Department of Energy said that: Supplies of crude oil were down 1.0 million barrels last week to 332.4 million barrels. Supplies of...

Platinum leaders berate fund launch The world's two largest platinum producers have voiced opposition to the planned launch of a plati...

Foreclosures, default notices hit 10-year high Homes lost to foreclosures in California shot up to 11,033 in the first quarter, an 81.5 perc...

U.S. consumer prices rose 0.6% in March and up 2.8% YoY. Excluding food and energy costs, prices rose 0.1% in March and up 2.5% YoY U.S. ho...

Retail sales rose 0.7% in March, the biggest jump in three months, the Commerce Department said. The U.S. Treasury Department said that in ...

Federal Reserve policymakers were unanimous in the view last month that inflation , not economic weakness, was their major worry. Machiner...

Gas guzzler penalty fuels debate California drivers who buy new Hummers, Ford Expeditions and other big vehicles that emit high levels of g...

The Bank of Japan kept the interest rate unchanged at 0.50%. Nickel prices broke through the $50,000 mark for the first time on Tuesday, le...

Brazil' s main stock index surged past 47,000 points on Monday, setting yet another record, and the nation's currency neared two pe...

Robert Fisk: The true story of free speech in America Sami al-Arian is 49 but he stayed on hunger strike for 60 days to protest the governm...

Conservatives for the Constitution Rejecting the suggestion that conservatives must remain silent because Bush is supposedly one of their ow...

Representatives okay Real ID ban Supporters of the ban said New Hampshire needs to send a clear statement that the federal government stray...

U.S. Unemployment rate improved from 4.5% to 4.4% in March with a net gain of 180,000 jobs, better than expected. U.S. Average hourly earni...

Climate change The resulting document predicts the same sorts of consequences as its predecessor did in 2001, but with much greater confide...

China today raised its reserve ratio by 0.5 points to 10.5%, which was the sixth hike in less than a year. The U.S. Labor Department said t...

The Institute of Supply Management's index of U.S. services dropped from 54.3 to 52.4 in March. Factory orders rose 1% in February fol...

The botched US raid that led to the hostage crisis A failed American attempt to abduct two senior Iranian security officers on an official...

The National Association of Realtors said U.S. pending home sales increased from 108.5 to 109.3 in February, more than expected. Industrial...

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President William Poole said the U.S. central bank's main concern remains inflation and he could be i...

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...

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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...

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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...