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U.S . personal incomes rose 0.2% in April U.S. Consumer spending rose 0.2%. The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment f...

U.S. GDP rose 0.9% in the first quarter and up 2.5% YoY U.S. jobless claims rose 4,000 last week to 372,000 Australia ’s leading indicator...

Oil crisis triggers fevered scramble for the world's seabed Is it in the interests of mankind to tap deep-sea reserves? We may have no ...

U.S . Durable goods orders fell 0.5% in April, better than expected. Excluding transport orders rose 2.5%. GDP in Malaysia rose 7.1% QoQ. ...

The S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index fell 14.4% YoY. The Conference Board said its monthly measure of consumer confidence fell to 57....

Corn Costs Signal Biggest Beef Surge Since 2003 as Herds Shrink May 27 (Bloomberg) -- Enjoy your next steak , because prices from Shanghai t...

U.S. existing home sales fell 1% MoM to a 4.89 million-unit annual rate, the National Association of Realtors said. The median price of an e...

U.S. jobless claims fell 9,000 last week to 365,000. U.S. Home prices fell 1.7% in the first three months of 2008 from the previous quart...

Welcome to the Greatest Show on Earth America's war against Iraq had its roots in many improving impulses. According to John McCain and ...

U.S. producer price index rose 0.2% in April and up 6.5% YoY. Excluding food and energy, prices rose 0.4% in April and up 3.0% YoY. The Chi...

The Conference Board's index of leading indicators rose 0.1% in April. Construction output in the Euro zone fell 2.2% in March and dow...

Barclays gets bullish over American shares Barclays' closely-watched Signpost report says the US is at last beginning to claw its way o...

‘Superfood’ celery combats brain diseases The compounds luteolin and diosmin appear to block the inflammation that causes the brains of vic...

U.S. Home construction rose 8.2% in April, making the biggest increase in two years. However, the rise was driven by a surge in multifamily...

Consumer Price Index "GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC REPORTS: THINGS YOU'VE SUSPECTED BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK!" In particular, changes mad...

U.S industrial production fell 0.7% MoM, matching the largest decline since the one following Hurricane Katrina The Fed’s Philadelphia'...

U.S. Consumer price index rose 0.2% in April and 3.9% YoY-- less than expected. Excluding food and energy prices rose 0.1% in April, and 2.3...

Dry bulk market in 'riot mode' THE dry bulk market is officially in “riot mode” this week, according to one shipbroker, as freight ...

U.S . retail sales fell 0.2% MoM, but rose 2.0% YoY. YoY consumer process rose 3.0% in the U.K . YoY China 's retail sales rose 22% in A...

China 's April inflation rose to 8.5%. China’s Sichuan province was hit by a magnitude-7.9 earthquake, the nation's strongest in 58...

The global slump of 2008-09 has begun as poison spreads The bears at Société Générale are going into Siberian hibernation, issuing an "...

Home truths It is not hard to see why politicians are so keen to help. For all the hope that the worst may be over in financial markets, the...

The U.S . trade deficit narrowed 5.7% to $58.21 billion in March, more than expected. Canada 's unemployment rate increased from 6.0% to...

Greenspan says worst of credit crisis over: sources Greenspan also said house prices still had a long way to fall and that it was unlikely t...

U.S. Wholesale inventories fell 0.1%. The Bank of England kept its interest rate unchanged at 5.0%. The Euro pean Central Bank kept its int...

Baltic Dry Index Exceeds 10,000 for First Time Since December ``The market is very, very close to equilibrium in terms of demand and supply...

U.S. worker productivity rose at an annual rate of 2.2% in the first quarter. U.S . unit labor costs rose at an annual rate of 2.2% in the ...

An index of services in the U.K . fell from 52.1 to 50.4 in April, weaker than expected. The Reserve Bank of Australia met and kept its in...

Goldman's Murti Says Oil `Likely' to Reach $150-$200 (Update4) ``The possibility of $150-$200 per barrel seems increasingly likely...

The Institute of Supply Management's index of services increased from 49.6 to 52.0. (WSJ) Casino operator Tropicana Entertainment is ex...

Metals Surge as Rationing Cuts Power at Biggest Mines (Update1) May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Chile's worst drought in five decades and power rat...

Zinc Price May Jump More Than 50% in Five Years, Macquarie Says Rapid supply growth in the near term notwithstanding, ``lower zinc prices an...

U.S. personal incomes rose 0.3% in March U.S. consumer spending rose 0.4%. The Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing index o...

The Fed reduced the federal funds rate to 2.00%, U.S . GDP rose 0.6% QoQ and 2.5% YoY. U.S. employment cost index rose 0.7% QoQ and 3.3% Yo...

According to the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller home price index U.S. home prices fell 12.7% YoY. The Conference Board index of cons...

The Chicago Fed’s regional index of manufacturing fell from 108.4 to 107.6 in April. YoY Japan's retail sales rose 1.1% in March. The...

The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index fell from 69.5 to 62.6 -- the lowest in 26 years. U.K .'s GDP rose 0.4% QoQ ...

Platinum Falls in N.Y. on Catalyst Replacement; Palladium Drops April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Platinum fell in New York after Mitsui Mining & ...

U.S. Durable goods orders fell 0.3% in March. Excluding transport, orders rose 1.5% -- stronger than expected. U.S. New home sales were at ...

Industrial new orders for the Euro zone rose 0.6% in February. Euro zone index of services rose from 51.6 to 51.8 in March. Australia '...

From Artificial Boom to Real Bust But we are using this time in the jet stream to profit from a vacuum in the news stream. That is, cut off ...

The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales fell 2% MoM, and 19% YoY. The Richmond Fed's regional index of manufactur...

The USDA said: 4% of the corn crop was planted, down from a five-year average of 17%. The USDA said there were 657 million pounds of frozen...

(Reuters) "I think the most important thing for the Fed to do is not just use moral suasion, but a baseball bat with respect to the ban...

The Conference Board said that its index of leading indicators rose 0.1%. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's index of manufacturing fel...

U.S. consumer prices rose 0.3% in March and 4.0% YoY. Without food and energy, prices rose 0.2% in March and 2.4% YoY. U.S. housing starts ...

U.S. producer prices rose 1.1% in March. Excluding food and energy costs, prices rose 0.2% The New York region of the Federal Reserve announ...

Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear For centuries—millennia—farmers have saved seeds from season to season: they planted in the spring, harvested in...

U.S . retail sales rose 0.2% in March, better than expected. U.K . producer prices rose 6.2% Industrial production in the Euro area rose 0....

Chile Thirsts for Rain as Goats Drop, Mines Face Power Cuts Chile is in the grip of the most damaging drought in a century. The water shorta...