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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday that a weaker dollar would have some inflationary impact but that expectations for sl...

U.S. Producer prices rose 1.1% in September and 4.4% YoY. U.S. Retail sales rose 0.6% in September. Without transport sales rose 0.4% Indust...

The U.S. deficit in international trade of goods and services shrank 2.4%. Australia 's unemployment rate fell from 4.3% to 4.2%. The ...

Consumer confidence in Australia fell 0.3%. The Baltic Dry Index passed 10,000 for the first time since its inception in 1985. Crude oil ro...

Global warming hits Cereal production hard According to the first study on the impact of climate change on global food production from 1981 ...

The Dow and S&P 500 closed at records after minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting showed inflation expectations were cont...

Study: GM corn might affect ecosystems Assistant Professor Todd Royer said the study suggested pollen and other plant parts containing toxin...

U.K .’s Producer prices rose 2.7% YoY. Factory orders in Germany rose 1.2%

EPA Asked to Regulate Ship Emissions Marine vessels are responsible for nearly 3 percent of the world's greenhouse gases — equal to the ...

U.S. jobless claims rose 16,000 last week to 317,000, more than expected. U.S. factory orders fell 3.3% in August. The Bank of England an...

The Institute of Supply Management said its index of services dropped from 55.8 to 54.8, about as expected. Democratic leaders in the U.S. ...

The National Association of Realtors said that its pending homes sales index was down 6.5% The unemployment rate in the Euro area was 6.9%...

In Wiki-Politics, Ron Paul and Mike Gravel Lead the Field At this time during the run up to the last presidential election, Wikipedia was i...

The Institute of Supply Management's U.S . manufacturing index dropped from 52.9 to 52.0 in September. Japan' s Tankan index was un...

Commodities Head for Biggest Monthly Increase in 32 Years (Bloomberg) The 19-commodity Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index was up 8.7 percent this m...

The PCE deflator, a core measure of consumer prices, rose 1.8%. U.S. Personal incomes rose 0.3% in August and consumer spending rose 0.6%, ...

New homes sales in the U.S. dropped 8.3 percent to an annual pace of 795,000 in August. The median price dropped 7.5 % YoY. The Commerce Dep...

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U.S. durable goods orders fell 4.9% in August, excluding transportation, orders were down 1.8%. U.K .'s GDP rose 3.1% Norway hiked ...

Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright The danger is that this could now accelerate as the yield gap between the United States and t...

The new British empire? UK plans to annex south Atlantic Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of th...

U.S. DoD To Outsource $15B War on ‘Narcoterror’ “This gives us the opportunity to bid on this work,” said Linda Hartwig, an ARINC spokeswoma...

A big overhang of property will bring U.S. house prices down further, but it is too early to say if the economy will sink into recession, fo...

Canada' s wholesale sales up 2.0% from June. Retail sales in the U.K. rose 0.6%. China plans to restrict fuel made from agricultural p...

U.S. Consumer prices fell 0.1% in August. U.S. August’s housing starts fell 2.6% from July's pace -- the lowest in twelve years. YoY h...

The U.S. Fed reduced the federal funds rate from 5.25% to 4.75% and the discount rate from 5.75% to 5.25%. The U.S. producer price index wa...

Frank May Win `Tougher Than Expected' Subprime-Lending Limits ``There may be no practical ability, even with extreme care and diligence...

The New York Fed regional manufacturing index fell from 25.1 to 14.7 in September. Mortgage lender Northern Rock fell to seven year low-- c...

Greenspan Sees Political Pressure on Fed as Inflation Picks Up To keep inflation under 2 percent, ``the Fed, given my scenario, would have t...

Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act A federal judge struck down a key part of the USA Patriot Act on Thursday in a ruling that defended t...

U.S. non-farm payrolls fell 4,000 in August, the first decline in four years. Payrolls for June and July were reduced by 81,000. Most job l...

Bank of Canada reverses liquidity move by tightening collateral requirements for financial institutions participating in special liquidity ...

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The National Association of Realtors said pending home sales were down 12.2% in July -- the lowest in six years. The Fed ’s Beige Book did ...

The Institute of Supply Management's index of manufacturing fell from 53.8 to 52.9 U.S. Construction spending was down 0.4% from June. ...

UN says rate of livestock breed extinction is 'alarming' Among the breeds the International Livestock Research Institute says are m...

Panama begins canal expansion The $5.25-billion expansion will accommodate a new class of huge ships capable of carrying more than twice t...

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...