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According to Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller index U.S. Home prices fell 0.9% in July, and down 16.3% YoY. The Conference Board said ...

Banking crash hits Europe as ECB loses traction Data from the IMF shows that European banks hold 75pc as much exposure to toxic US housing d...

U.S. Stocks Plunge After House Votes Against Bailout Plan 'Unimaginable' ``They've got to come up with something or the damage i...

Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve increased the size of previously arranged currency swaps with foreign central banks to $620 bill...

US Economy: Even Hank Paulson's bail-out plan cannot detox global banking Hopes that the world can cruise happily on as the US buckles h...

While Rome burns Sceptics on that point prefer to look at European banks’ leverage ratios, which measure the amount of capital banks hold re...

(Reuters) - Washington Mutual Inc was closed by the U.S. government in by far the largest failure of a U.S. bank, and its banking assets wer...

EU refuses bail-out package despite crisis fears Mr Gross said Deutsche Bank deploys fifty times leverage and has liabilites of $2,000bn, e...

The Winter of Our Discontent The Bush administration used the 9/11 attacks as an excuse for the biggest increase in military spending and po...

Bringing Down Wall Street as Ratings Let Loose Subprime Scourge ``I view the ratings agencies as one of the key culprits,'' says Jo...

U.S. existing home sales fell 2.2% on the month -- weaker than expected. Business confidence in Germany dropped from 94.8 to 92.9 in Septem...

The Richmond Fed’s regional index of manufacturing fell from -16 to -18 in September. YoY Canada ’s consumer prices rose 3.5% in August. ...

Mr. Market Will Have His Say At some point - and here we are just guessing, of course - investors are going to put two and two together . Th...

Financial Crisis: America rises to the occasion as storm heads for Europe The US government debt (owed to the public, using the IMF measure)...

Life Imitates Farce "How fabulous," writes Brian Reade in the British tabloid The Mirror. "Thanks to the way it props up the ...

The Federal Reserve agreed to convert Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs into traditional bank holding companies. The move effectively put an ...

Democrats Pledge Quick Action on Rescue Legislation (Update1) Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Democratic lawmakers said they would act quickly...

U.S. producer prices fell 0.9% in August, but rose 9.6% YoY. Excluding food and energy, prices rose 0.2% in August. U.S. retail sales fell 0...

The U.S. trade deficit grew 5.7% to $62.2 billion, the largest in 16 months. U.S. exports increased $5.4 billion to $162.8 billion in July w...

The Mortgage Bankers Association's index of mortgage applications rose 9.5% last week, but fell 24% YoY. YoY Japan ’s wholesale prices ...

The National Association of Realtors said pending home sales fell 3.2% in July and down 6.8% YoY. Lehman shares fell 45% after a Korean offi...

The U.S. government is taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in an effort to save the mortgage industry and keep the whole show from going...

Media Blackout: The Armada in the Gulf Here is the basic story. Two aircraft carrier task forces, the Abraham Lincoln and the Peleliu, are a...

Of Moose and Pit Bulls To countries competing with the US, as for example Japan, the American military budget is a godsend, the equivalent ...

Computer containing deets of 1 million bank customers sold on eBay This time, an unsuspecting IT manager, had found details for one million...

The S&P/Case-Shiller index of U.S. home prices in twenty cities fell 0.5% in June. YoY home prices fell 15.9%. The U.S. Census Bureau s...

The National Association of Realtors said that U.S. existing home sales were at an annual rate of 5.00 million units in July, up 3.1% MoM. T...

(FT)The decline in oil prices and the rally in the dolla r was "encouraging", Ben Bernanke said, suggesting the Federal Reserve th...

U.S. Mint Suspends Sales of American Eagle Gold Coins It is the first time in two decades that the Mint halted sales of the coins, which are...

U.S. jobless claims were down 13,000 last week to 432,000. U.S . leading indicators fell 0.7% in July. The Philadelphia Feds regional index ...

The Golden Value of Reliable Numbskulls Gold is the "the epitome of human stupidity," said an opinion in the Telegraph newspaper. ...

Japan's Exports Rebound, China Becomes No. 1 Customer (Update2) (Bloomberg) -- Japan's exports rebounded in July as China replaced ...

Canada ’s sales rose 0.5% from May, and up 4.0% YoY Shanghai equities made their biggest daily gain in four months as optimism rose the Chi...

Proportion and Distortion Russia and Georgia

Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century" The idea that the U.S. can, should and must be, more or less, i...

U.S. Labor producer price index rose 1.2% in July, and up 9.8% YoY U.S. housing starts were at an annual rate of 965,000 units in July, do...

George, Stay Out of Georgia by William S. Lind It almost passes belief to think that the Bush administration, bogged down in two wars and p...

The USDA said: 67% of the corn crop was rated good to excellent, the same as last week. 62% of the soybean crop was rated good to excellent...

Dollar surge will not stop America feeling the effects of a global crunch US exports have risen 22pc over the past year, outstripping Chines...

U.S. industrial production rose 0.2% in July, better than expected The New York Federal Reserve's regional index of manufacturing rose ...

Blowback From Bear- Baiting by Patrick J. Buchanan Is not Western hypocrisy astonishing?

U.S. consumer prices rose 0.8% in July and 5.6% YoY. The National Association of Realtors said YoY the prices of single family homes fell 7...

U.S . retail sales fell 0.1% in July, but rose 2.6% YoY. U.S. business sales rose 1.7% in June U.S. inventories rose 0.7%. Japan 's G...

U.S. Exports rose $6.4 billion to $164.4 billion in June - imports rose $4.0 billion to $221.2 billion. The result was $56.8 billion of net ...

The Russo-Georgian War and the Balance of Power By George Friedman ..Moscow did not have to concern itself with the potential response of t...

Georgia: Vladimir Putin sends emphatic message of global importance Mr Putin has demonstrated that the Kremlin will use force to protect th...

YoY the U.K. 's producer prices rose 10.2% in July The USDA said: 67% of the corn crop was rated good to excellent, up from 66% last we...

US dollar rallies as extent of worldwide recession becomes clearer Arguably, the US is now super-competitive. Airbus and Volkswagen are shif...