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The Chicago Purchasing Managers' index rose from 49.1% to 49.6% in June Canada GDP rose 0.4% in April and up 1.2% YoY The USDA estim...

The CFTC has reiterated it has the power to stop trading in futures in emergencies. Pelosi told the CFTC to use its powers and bring a halt ...

Barclays warns of a financial storm as Federal Reserve's credibility crumbles Barclays Capital said in its closely-watched Global Outlo...

U.S. GDP rose 1.0% in the first quarter and up 2.5% YoY. U.S. existing home sales were at an annual rate of 4.99 million units, up 2.0% in...

U.S. New home sales were at an annual rate of 512,000 units in May, down 2.5% from April's pace. YoY new home sales are down 37%. U.S....

The S&P/Case-Shiller index of U.S. home prices fell 1.4% in April and down 15.3% YoY. The Conference Board's index of consumer conf...

The Chicago Fed’s index of national activity improved from -1.23 to -.96 in May Business confidence in Germany fell from 103.5 to 101.3 in ...

Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol What is most remarkable about what they are doing is that instead of trying to reen...

Morgan Stanley warns of 'catastrophic event' as ECB fights Federal Reserve Just as then, the dollar has plummeted far enough to cau...

Canada ’s retail sales rose 0.6% in April Mexico 's central bank raised its overnight rate by 25 basis points to 7.75%. India 's inf...

U.S . leading indicators rose 0.1% in May -- better than expected. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional index of manufacturing fe...

Gold May Rise to $5,000 on Inflation, Schroder Says (Update1) Demand for gold will also rise as central banks become net buyers for the firs...

Mexican Peso Trims Gains as Calderon Announces Price Freezes ..Calderon said the government and industry groups had agreed to freeze the pr...

The Illusion of Vast Undeveloped U.S. Oil Resources There has been a relentless stream of discussion on talk radio and articles in the mains...

Canada ’s index of leading indicators rose 0.2% Construction output in the Euro area fell 0.8% in April and down 2.4% YoY The U.S. DOE said:...

U.S. producer prices rose 1.4% in May and 7.2% YoY. U.S. housing starts fell 3.3% from April's pace. It was the smallest number of hou...

The N.Y. Fed’s regional index of manufacturing fell from -3.2 to -8.7 in June, weaker than expected. Consumer prices in the Euro area rose ...

U.S. CPI rose 0.6% in May and 4.2% YoY. Excluding food and energy, prices rose 0.2%. The University of Michigan's index of consumer se...

Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act The Court's ruling was grounded in its recognit...

U.S. retail sales rose 1.0% in May. Excluding autos, sales rose 1.2%. U.S. business sales rose 1.4% in April. Inventories rose 0.5%. U.S. j...

Baltic Dry Index Has Record Decline as Port Congestion Eases The index tracking transport costs on international trade routes dropped 963 po...

Japan 's GDP rose 1.0% QoQ and 1.6% YoY Japan’s producer prices rose 4.7% YoY. U.K .'s unemployment rate rose 0.1% MoM. Canada ’s in...

The U.S. trade gap grew 7.8 % to $60.9 billion, its biggest one-month gain since September 2005, Japan 's machinery orders rose 5.5% i...

Buffett bets S&P 500 will beat hedge funds Buffett has long been critical of hedge funds because of the high fees they charge investors...

The National Association of Realtors said that U.S. pending home sales rose 6.3% in April. Swiss unemployment rate stayed at 2.5 % last mo...

The Rain Keeps Coming: No End in Sight This Week So, a combination of record high crude oil prices and the current unfriendly weather for c...

(Dow Jones)--Trading in the global exchange-traded derivatives markets grew to a value of $692 trillion at the end of the first quarter of ...

Soaring shipping costs fuel inflation The cost of renting a Capesize ship, used to transport iron ore and coal, rose to $233,988 a day at t...

The U.S. unemployment rate rose from 5.0 to 5.5 % in May. Canada ’s unemployment rate remained at 6.1% in May Germany ’s industrial produc...

U.S. Jobless claims were down 18,000 last week to 357,000, lower than expected. The Bank of England kept its interest rate unchanged at 5...

U.S . worker productivity rose at an annual rate of 2.6% in the first quarter. U.S. labor costs rose at an annual rate of 2.2% in the first...

Monsanto Pledges Seeds to Double Crop Yields by 2030 The company is committed to doubling yields for corn, soybeans and cotton by 2030 fro...

Pickens Says CFTC Probe of Oil a `Waste of Time' (Update1) ``There's nothing to it to start with,'' Pickens said in intervi...

Commodity Regulator to Boost Disclosure on Agriculture Markets Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Aff...

Fed Chairman Bernanke told an international monetary conference in Spain that further rate cuts were not likely because he was ``attentive...

The Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing index improved from 48.6 to 49.6 -- better than expected. U.S. construction spending...

Argentine alert as inflation spectre stalks half the world Among the CPI rates - if you believe them - are: Ukraine (30pc), Venezuela (29pc...

Mexicans believe drug gangs winning war with gov't According to a poll by the newspaper, 53 percent of Mexicans think that drug traffic...

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...