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The U.S. Commerce Department reported January personal spending rose 0.4%, while personal income rose by 0.3%. Chicago Purchasing Managers ...

What Happens When Consumers Stop Consuming? Central bankers don't normally reduce interest rates in the face of rising consumer prices....

U.S. GDP rose 0.2% QoQ and 2.2% YoY -- less than expected Japan 's factory production fell 2% in January Germany 's unemployment r...

U.S. durable goods orders fell 5.3% in January, weaker than expected. Excluding transport orders fell 1.6%. U.S. new home sales fell 2.8% ...

Germany ’s Feb. business confidence index rose 0.7 to 104.1 -- stronger than expected. The U.S. Labor Department said that producer prices...

As of today I have not changed the computed 70+% chance of US corn yield being below 150.6 BPA. – Elwynn—

U.S. existing home sales fell 0.4% in January. This is 10.3 months of inventory. Median home prices fell 4.6% YoY. Kazakhstan will curb grai...

Gold Falls as U.S. Pledges Support for Some IMF Bullion Sales ``If you're China, you're holding all those U.S. dollars in reserves,...

America’s economy risks mother of all meltdowns Prof Roubini is even fonder of lists than I am. Here are his 12 – yes, 12 – steps to financ...

Demand for wheat puts India at risk B.C. Khatua, the chairman of the Forward Markets Commission, which regulates futures trading for food co...

The Bonfire of Capital It all sounds more complicated than it really is. Imagine a 200 ft. conveyor belt with two burly workers and a mounta...

Banks Lose to Deadbeat Homeowners as Loans Sold in Bonds Vanish Each time the mortgages change hands, the sellers are required to sign over...

Turkish troops launched a ground invasion into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels. Canada 's retail sales rose 0.6% MoM and 5....

Government investigating link between ethanol, beef recalls Studies from two universities show evidence that feeding cattle a byproduct of e...

The Philadelphia Fed's regional index of manufacturing fell from -20.9 to -24.0 The Conference Board's index of leading indicators ...

Record U.S. Cash Reserves: Waiting To Be Deployed, But When? There is a massive mountain of U.S. investable cash sitting on the sidelines, ...

Famines May Occur Without Record Crops This Year, Potash Says ``As protein consumption increases, as they move from fish to chicken, chicke...

The people who hustle granite countertops are finally getting a rest News came yesterday, that the Fed has quietly lent some $50 billion t...

U.S. Housing starts rose 0.8% MoM, but fell 28% YoY. U.S. Consumer prices rose 0.4% in January and 4.3% YoY. Canada 's composite ind...

Coffee Jumps in N.Y. as Inventories Dwindle, Commodities Surge Stockpiles in warehouses monitored by ICE Futures U.S. have dropped 3 percent...

YoY Consumer prices in Canada rose 2.2% Czarnikow lowered the world sugar production surplus for 2007-2008 from 10.5 to 9.7 million tons. T...

A Financial War With No Winners So, maybe the stock market is looking at this situation, too. And maybe it sees stocks as a protection from...

U.S. industrial production rose 0.1% U.S. consumer sentiment fell from 78.4 to 69.6 Reuters said lack of rain in the Ivory Coast for the la...

U.S. exports rose $2.2 billion in December, while imports fell $2.2 billion—resulting in $58.8 billion of net imports. Australia ’s unemplo...

Americans Selling Homes See Prices Go Below Mortgage (Update2) By the end of this year as many as 15 million U.S. households may owe more on...

U.S . retail sales rose 0.3% in January -- better than expected. U.K .'s unemployment rate improved to 5.2%, the lowest since 1975. P...

Warren Buffett unveiled a plan to “reinsure” $800 billion of municipal bonds. Six U.S. Banks launched a program aimed at staving off home f...

Dow-Jones said Bank of America and Chevron will replace Altria Group and Honeywell International in its Dow-Jones Industrial Average effect...

The U.S. Congress passed and sent to Bush a $168 billion economic stimulus package. Canada ’s unemployment rate improved from 6.0% to 5.8% T...

THE REAL SCANDAL At the crisis' core are loans that were made with virtually nonexistent underwriting standards - no verification of in...

India's Wheat Imports May Rise 68%, Bolstering Record Prices ``I will be surprised if India matches last year's output as planting ...

The National Association of Realtors said its index of pending home sales fell 1.5% in December. YoY pending sales fell 24%. The Bank of E...

U.S . non-farm productivity rose 1.8% QoQ and 2.6% YoY, stronger than expected. U.S. unit labor costs rose 3.1% in 2007. Japan 's inde...

Nearby spring wheat sees spec, supply squeeze "As of yesterday, there were still 20,000 contracts deliverable against March and only en...

CDO Ratings to Fall as Losses Trigger Fitch Overhaul The New York-based company may lower the notes by as much as five levels after failing...

The Institute of Supply Managements' index of services fell from 54.4 to 41.9 in January, weaker than expected. Index of services in t...

Russian economy succumbs to the oil curse Nice Tsarist flats fetch $3m to $4m. Even Bolshevik boxes are booming. Moscow boasts 150,000 home...

U.S. factory orders rose 2.3% in December-- less than expected. Excluding transportation, orders rose 0.7%. Australian home price rose 12...

Banana Republic, Without the Bananas…or the Republic How does an economy like this keep going? It depends on the kindness of strangers and ...

Global Finance and the Insanity Defense French President Nicholas Sarkozy advanced the idea recently that the global financial system is ...

Hidden Swap Fees by JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley Hit School Boards What New York-based JPMorgan Chase didn't tell them, the transcript show...

Wheat Rallies, Extending Record in Minneapolis, on Low Supply Another concern for farmers in the northern Plains is finding enough spring-wh...

U.S. lost 17,000 non-farm jobs in January. This was the first monthly loss in 4-1/2 years and increases the likelihood the Fed will cut int...

MBIA Inc. Chief Executive Dunton dismissed bankruptcy rumors and expects to keep AAA rating. U.S. jobless claims rose 69,000 to 375,000, mo...

Putting it in Reverse On that point, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich writes, "America's middle classes are no longer coping....

The Fed cut its key lending rate by one-half percentage point to 3%, U.S . GDP rose 0.6% QoQ and 2.5% YoY, weaker than expected. Industria...

U.S. farming practices acidifying Mississippi "It's like the discovery of a new large river being piped out of the Corn Belt,...

Zimbabwe Economics As we’ve hinted, too, it is one thing to punish a few speculators with skin in the dotcom game. It is quite another to de...

New Alzheimer's Treatment Completes First Phase Of Testing A molecule designed by a Purdue University researcher to stop the debilitat...

U.S. durable goods orders rose 5.2% in December, much more than expected. Excluding transportation orders rose 2.6%. Consumer confidence fel...