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The Chicago Purchasing Managers' index rose from 44.5 to 48.2 in March. Canada ’s GDP rose 0.6% MoM, and 2.2% YoY Japan 's industri...

U.S. Personal incomes rose 0.5% in February, better than expected. Consumer spending rose 0.1%. The University of Michigan's consumer s...

U.S . GDP was unrevised at 0.6% growth for the fourth quarter of 2007, the slowest pace since late 2002. The U.S. economy seems to be slipp...

Senate panel chief questions Dimon's Fed seat "I have great respect for Jamie Dimon, who's head of JPMorgan," Dodd, a Con...

U.S. new home sales fell 1.8% MoM and 29.8% YoY U.S. durable goods orders fell 1.7% in February. Excluding transportation, orders fell 2.6...

Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index of U.S. home prices fell by 11.4% in January, the biggest monthly drop since the index began in...

The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales were at an annual rate of 5.03 million units in February, up 2.9% MoM and bett...

Sooner Fed bail-outs than the 1930s revisited We should be thankful that the man now heading the US Federal Reserve - Ben Bernanke - spent ...

U.S. jobless claims rode 22,000 last week to 378,000. U.S. leading indicators fell 0.3% in February. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve...

U.S. government is lowering the capital requirements for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from 30% to 20% in an attempt to provide more liquidity ...

(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong shut all primary schools and kindergartens yesterday following the unexplained deaths of four young children with f...

U.S. retail sales fell 0.6% in February. Australia unemployment rate improved from 4.1% to 4.0% South African gold production fell 5% M...

Concerns surfaced the Feds plan to boost financial market liquidity might prove inadequate to ease the stress in the credit markets. U.S. ...

US Fed pins economic hopes on $200bn liquidity boost Mortgage debt is now greater than home equity for first time since records began.

US economy a '$3 trillion' casualty of war in Iraq Stiglitz and Bilmes argue the true cost is at least US$3 trillion, under what th...

The Institute for Supply Management said its index of national factory activity fell to 48.3 in February from 50.7 in January. The U.S . Ce...

'Ninja' loans explode on sub-prime frontline One family - the husband is a janitor, the wife a cleaner - bought their two bedroom b...

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...