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Help with the mortgage A rising tide of defaults among borrowers with shaky credit histories has, thanks to the way that their debts have b...

U.S . GDP rose 4.0% in the second quarter, YoY GDP rose 1.9% in the second quarter. Retail sales in Japan were down 2.2% in July. The Phili...

Soybean Stampede Sends Argentine Cattle North to Face Piranhas The comedown is unfolding in Argentina, where ranchers are driving their worl...

Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States -- and considerab...

Top Fund Managers Made 22,300 Times Average Wage, Study Says The study's authors said top hedge-fund managers are making more in a frac...

Confidence in Germany fell from 8.5 to 7.6 in August, weaker than expected. The U.S. DOE said that: Supplies of crude oil were down 3.5 mi...

Lib Dem plan to ban petrol-driven cars The 10-point plan on climate change also included a commitment to 100% carbon-free non-nuclear gene...

U.S. consumer confidence in August fell by the most since the period immediately following Hurricane Katrina, the New York-based Conference ...

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U.S. existing home sales declined 0.2% from the prior month to an annual rate of 5.75 million. There is a 9.2 month supply of single family ...

Amerika, 2007 At least the inhabitants of "Amerika" could point out that they had been conquered by a wily and resourceful foreign...

Officials from the Federal Reserve on Saturday warned of dangers from a rising tide of trade disputes and the harmful impact on what one oth...

U.S. jobless claims were down 2,000 last week to 322,000. Canada's wheat crop is estimated at 20.3 million tons, down 20% YoY. The Ba...

Dollar May Fall to Record Within Six Months, Goldman Sachs Says The Fed will lower its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage point to 4...

China fear over 'tainted' US soya US soya bean exporters said China was trying to "balance things out".

The Bank of Japan at its regular 2-day policy meeting that begins today is unanimously expected to leave its monetary policy unchanged. Ind...

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Look Out. This Crunch Is Serious Incipient panic has reigned in U.S. financial markets over the past couple of weeks, and no wonder. Some he...

U.S. Housing starts were down 6.1% from June's pace and down 20.9% YoY. U.K .'s retail sales rose 0.7% in July YoY Consumer prices...

St. Louis Fed President William Poole said financial market disruptions had not yet hit the U.S. economy and the central bank should not act...

Basis Capital Says Yield Fund Loss May Top 80% The funds ran into trouble by investing in the unrated, riskiest portions of collateralized d...

Sentinel warns of losses if clients panic "The (companies) who have money with Sentinel are members of the various exchanges. So the ex...

Sentinel Management Group Seeks to Halt Redemptions Sentinel's clients include so-called futures commission merchants, businesses that m...

Flush with Profits from the Iraq War, Military Contractors See a World of Business Opportunities Since the launch of the "global war o...

U.S. Producer prices rose 0.6% in July and up 4.0% YoY. Excluding food and energy, prices rose 0.1% in July and up 2.3% YoY. GDP in the Eu...

U.S. retail sales rose 0.3% in July. Japan GDP rose 0.1% QoQ Consumer prices in China rose 5.6% YoY, the most in 10 years. China's CP...

Time to sell or what? Maybe check an 'insider' index He has compiled this index back to the mid-1970s, and found it to have an impr...

Crunch time The ECB’s move eased the cash crunch—at least temporarily. Overnight rates dropped back to the central bank’s target rate of 4%,...

China's agriculture minister says drought poses 'grave threat' to grain harvest Drought has hit about 110 million hectares (270...

The Federal Reserve joined the European and Asian Central Banks to add cash ($19 billion) to the banking system. YoY Japan ese wholesale pri...

Bernanke, Paulson Were Wrong: Subprime Contagion Is Spreading ``Housing created a lot of ancillary economic activity and jobs, and now we a...

BOJ pumps 1 trillion yen into money markets in sync with ECB, Fed The central banks of Japan, the United States and Europe took a coordinate...

BNP Paribas (France's largest bank) froze investor redemptions from three funds. The news caused more fears about the continued run on f...

China's Trade Surplus Likely Jumped Almost 60 Percent in July ``As the U.S. election approaches, the trade relationship with China will...

U.S. wholesale sales rose 0.6% in June U.S. Inventories rose 0.5%. The California Air Resources Board mandated that gasoline sold in the s...

China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against ...

US House Approves Renewable Energy Tax Incentives The Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2007 includes tax credits and bond...

U.S. Productivity rose 1.8%. U.S. Unit labor costs rose 2.1%. The Fed kept the federal funds rate unchanged and said that while tightening c...

The U.K. 's manufacturing index increased from 103.1 to 103.3 in June. The USDA said: 56% of the corn crop is rated good to excellent,...

U.S. Housing Is Among `Biggest Bubbles,' Rogers Says ``This is the only time in world history when people were able to buy houses with n...

Treasury’s Henry Paulson said the U.S. government will hit its $8.965-trillion debt limit in early October and asked Congress to raise it. ...

Franco Is Still Dead, and Housing Is Still Bust: Caroline Baum Residential investment, as it's referred to in the gross domestic product...

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U.S. GDP rose 3.4%. The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment rose from 85.3 to 90.4 in July. YoY consumer prices in Ja...

Coke named global brand king Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Marlboro and Microsoft have been named among the top 20 most valuable brands in the ...

Hidden U.S. subprime losses may mirror Japan bank crisis "The Japanese experience of holding large losses as opposed to taking a hit a...