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YoY the S&P/Case-Shiller index of U.S. home prices in 20 cities fell 19% in January The Conference Board's index of consumer confide...

Global stock markets dived today after the White House denied General Motors and Chrysler multi-billion dollar bailouts and threatened to pu...

Only a united front at the London G20 can save the world from ruin The risk is that this G20 becomes the defining moment when a disgusted ...

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

U.S. GDP fell at a 6.3% annual rate in Q4. U.S. Jobless claims rose 8,000 last week to 652,000. Canada’s lumber production fell 23% YoY YoY...

U.S. Durables orders rose 3.4% in February, stronger than expected . Excluding transportation orders rose 3.9% The Mortgage Bankers Associa...

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The Big Takeover ..There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. In the age...

The Richmond Federal Reserve's regional index of manufacturing rose from -51 to -20 in March -- better than expected. YoY U.K .'s co...

MoM U.S. existing home sales rose 5.1% at their fastest pace in nearly six years. The inventory of existing homes for sale rose 5.2 percent ...

From now on, think of the US as a bigger Zimbabwe For readers who may not know, Mr Gono is governor of the Central Bank of Zimbabwe. He...

A gold bubble may well be coming our way In the stagflationary conditions of 1980, the gold price peaked at $875, the equivalent of $2,300 t...

Canada ’s retail sales rose 1.9% Industrial production in the Euro area fell 3.5% in January Mexico ’s cut the lending rate to 6.75% (Re...

California February home sales up 42.5 percent February was the eighth straight month that California home sales rose from year-earlier lev...

Financial Crisis Caused by a 'Culture of Complicity' Beyond that, if the situation for the bank is truly hopeless or if the manageme...

Naked Short Sales Hint Fraud in Bringing Down Lehman (Update1) While the commission’s Enforcement Complaint Center received about 5,000 com...

March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. plans to spend about $10 million on new offices for Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit and his l...

Up in arms ..America accounted for 45% of the world's military spending—$1.2 trillion in 2007—more than the next 14 biggest countries co...

.. 10-Year Treasury Yields Fall Most Since 1962 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks and Treasuries surged and the dollar tumbled after the Federal ...

( FOMC ) ..Moreover, to help improve conditions in private credit markets, the Committee decided to purchase up to $300 billion of longer-te...

U.S. housing starts rose 22% MoM better than expected, but fell 47% YoY. U.S. producer prices rose 0.1% MoM and fell 1.3% YoY. Excluding f...

Ben Bernanke predicts that America's worst recession in decades will likely end this year before a recovery gathers steam in 2010. U.S ....

AIG names recipients of its bailout money The list released Sunday of "counterparties" that benefited from the bailout is topped b...

Where Did the Money Go? Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has resisted calls from Congress that he release the names of the banks that were recipi...

G20: the summit risks becoming the Kyoto of the economic meltdown What all these policies assume, however, is that a propensity to borrow an...

(Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. cut its forecast for the global economy for the second time in eight days after predicting a deeper ...

U.S. retail sales fell 0.1% in February, not as bad as expected. U.S. new jobless claims rose 15,000 last week to 654,000. Japan 's GDP...

Citigroup said the company showed an $8.3 billion operating profit in the first two months of this year. Pandit said his bank is having the ...

YoY Japan ’s exports fell 46% in January Merck said it would acquire Schering-Plough Corp for $41.1 billion

Thanks to the Bank it's a crisis; in the eurozone it's a total catastrophe As it is we have seen industrial production collapse in e...

U.S. unemployment rate rose to 8.1% in February with a net loss of 651,000 jobs -- no worse than analysts had predicted. YoY U.K . Producer ...

China's stimulus package looks like it's stimulating Yet official data suggest the money being pumped through the economy is alrea...

U.S. factory orders fell 1.9% in January, not as weak as expected U.S. jobless claims fell 31,000 last week to 639,000. U.S. productivity f...

The U.S. Institute of Supply Management index of services fell from 42.9 to 41.6 (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday launched...

EU pledges eurozone rescue Europe's financial authorities have revealed the existence of a contingency plan to rescue eurozone states a...

China May Announce New Stimulus Measures Tomorrow (Update3) March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao may announce new stimulus meas...

U.S. pending home sales fell 7.7% in January, weaker than expected. Australia kept rates unchanged at 3.25% Canada reduced its interest ra...

U.S. Personal incomes rose 0.4% in January U.S . consumer spending rose 0.6% -- snapping six months of declines. U.S. Construction fell 3...

Buffett Says Economy ‘In Shambles,’ Promises Better Days Ahead “The economy will be in shambles throughout 2009 -- and, for that matter, pro...

New 'Iron Curtain' will split EU's rich and poor The spectacular collapse of some of the post-communist tiger economies led to ...

We need shock and awe policies to halt depression Factory output is collapsing at the fastest pace everywhere. The figures for the most re...

U.S . GDP contracted at a 6.2% annual rate in Q4 The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index fell from 61.2 to 56.3 in January...

Exclusive: Derivatives for Dummies by The Other Katherine Harris Imagine being able to insure a car that you don’t own or use. Imagine it’s ...

BERNIE & THE DOMINOS 3 MORE 'SCAMS' EXPOSED "There are potentially hundreds of millions of other dollars, and we have no i...

Las Vegas Running Out of Water Means Dimming Los Angeles Lights In Asia, developing giants are battling pollution as their populations gro...

U.S. jobless claims rose 36,000 last week to 667,000, the most in over 16 years. Americans continuing to receive unemployment benefits topp...

Existing-home sales fell 5.3% to a nearly 12-year low in January, and the median home price fell to $170,300 from $199,800 YoY. U.K . GDP fe...

YoY the S&P's/Case-Shiller home price index of 20 cities fell 18.5% in December U.S . consumer confidence fell to a record low of 2...