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Shipping Rates Seen Falling 50% on China, Fleet Size (Update1) (Bloomberg) -- Just as global trade starts to recover, the shipping market is...

Chicago Purchasing Managers' index rose from 43.4 to 50.0 in August (WSJ) Fed and Treasury officials are scrambling to prevent the comme...

Brazil ready to infringe US drug patents Brazil is preparing to infringe patents on US pharmaceutical products, in retaliation against subsi...

U.S. personal incomes were unchanged in July U.S. consumer spending rose 0.2%. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index fe...

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U.S. GDP fell 0.25% in Q2 and 3.9% YoY -- better than expected. U.S. jobless claims fell 10,000 last week to 570,000 -- better than expected...

U.S. durable goods orders rose 4.9% in July -- best gain in two years. U.S. new home sales rose 9.6% MoM and fell 13.4% YoY. Builders had 27...

The troubling side of Ben Bernanke Bill White, former chief economist at the Bank for International Settlements, said the error of the centr...

U.S. consumer confidence rose from 47.4 to 54.1 in August, better than expected. U.S. June S&P/CaseShiller Composite-20 Home Price Inde...

World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metal exports “This isn’t about the China holding the world to ransom. They are sayin...

NASA Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing Water Using NASA satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater leve...

Industrial new orders in the EU fell 0.4% MoM and down 24% YoY Canada ’s retail sales rose 1.0% MoM. The USDA said there were 9.644 million ...

China powers ahead as it seizes the green energy crown from Europe The Chinese trio of Suntech, Trina and Yingling all expect to be below 70...

U.S. existing home sales rose 7.2% MoM -- the most since August of 2007 (WSJ) One in eight U.S. households with mortgages was in foreclosure...

U.S. jobless rose 15,000 to 576,000 The Philadelphia Fed regional index of manufacturing rose from -7.5 to +4.2 -- the best reading since N...

U.S. mortgage applications rose 5.6% last week. Canada ’s consumer prices fell 0.9% YoY Canada’s leading indicators rose 0.4%. Construction...

There's no quick fix to the global economy's excess capacity As a matter of strict fact, two- thirds of the global economy is alread...

U.S. housing starts fell -1.0% MoM and -46% YoY. But single-family building permits rose 5.8%. U.S. producer prices fell -0.9% in July and -...

Pension Funds Pare Stocks, Ignoring Economic Rebound (Update2) Equities appreciated an average 12.91 percent a year from 1900 to 1999 , wh...

Japan' s GDP expanded 3.7% YoY Hong Kong’s GDP rose 3.3 % U.S . August Empire Manufacturing rose to 12.08 from -0.55 in July (3.00 expec...

U.S. retail sales fell 0.1% in July. U.S. home foreclosures rose 7% MoM and 32% YoY U.S. jobless claims rose 4,000 to 558,000. France and...

RBS uber-bear issues fresh alert on global stock markets When the finest minds in the business disagree so starkly, the rest of us can only ...

USDA Report The Fed kept funds rate unchanged at 0.125% U.S. Exports rose $2.4 billion in June while imports rose $3.5 billion. Resulting...

YoY U.S. non-farm productivity rose 1.8% in Q2, more than expected. U.S. business sales rose 0.4% in June U.S. inventories fell 1.7%. YoY Ru...

Japan 's machinery orders rose 9.7% in June New Zealand July House Prices fell -5.0% YoY Norway ’s July CPI fell -0.6% MoM GM and eBay w...

Jim Rogers Says U.S. Commodity Curbs to Drive Markets Overseas “It is remarkable because America is shooting itself in the foot again,” he s...

(WSJ)Patchy rains for the second straight week dashed hopes of a late monsoon revival in India, and will seriously impact the output of summ...

U.S. Household Deleveraging and Future Consumption Growth Since the start of the U.S. recession in December 2007, household leverage has dec...

U.S. unemployment rate fell from 9.5% to 9.4% in July The European Central Bank and 18 other banks agreed to limit their sales of gold to ...

Spike Coming in Commodities Prices: Goldman Sachs As the developed world increasingly begins to consume like Westerners the demands placed o...

U.S. jobless claims fell 38,000 last week to 550,000 -- less than expected. New Zealand Q2 Unemployment Rate rose to 6.0% vs. 5.7% expected...

The U.S. Institute of Supply Management's index of services dropped from 47.0 to 46.4 in July U.S . factory orders rose 0.4% in June. T...

U.S. pending home sales rose 3.6% in June U.S. personal incomes fell 1.3% in June U.S. consumer spending rose 0.4% in June U.K . construct...

Of the two-thirds of S&P 500 companies that have reported Q2 earnings 74% of them have exceeded expectations. U.S. manufacturing index r...

Alcoa Razes Rain Forest in Court Case Led by Brazil Prosecutors The fires men set to clear land for ranches and farms create 6 percent of t...

U.S. GDP fell 0.2% in Q2 and 2.4% YoY YoY the U.S. employment cost index rose 1.8% in June. Chicago Purchasing Managers' index rose from...

U.S. jobless claims rose 25,000 last week to 584,000. Japan' s industrial production rose 2.4% in June -- and 8.3% in Q2 On this news c...

U.S . and Chinese economic leaders pledged to keep up stimulus efforts and to rein in trade and investment imbalances. U.S. durable goods or...

The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller's index of U.S. home prices rose 0.5% in May, but fell 17.1% YoY (17.9% expected) -- The firs...

Surging Profit Estimates Signal 26% Rally for S&P 500 (Bloomberg) -- Analysts are raising U.S. profit estimates for the first time since...

MoM U.S. New- home sales r ose 11% in June, the third increase in a row and more than expected. September lumber is steady to higher. German...

U.S. jobless claims rose 30,000 last week to 554,000. U.S. existing home sales rose 3.6% in June. There is currently a 9.4 month supply of h...

US Weekly Consumer Confidence out at -50 as expected US exports are forecast to fall 13.6% this year, but expected to rise 1.7% next year ...

Bernanke shed light on the Fed's exit strategy, but made clear to lawmakers that the economy remains too weak to start tightening moneta...

U.S. leading indicators rose 0.7% in June, better than expected. Canada ’s May Wholesale Sales dropped -0.3% UK July House Prices rose +0.6%...

Mobius Says China Market Value to Overtake U.S. in Three Years China’s market is valued at $3.2 trillion, compared with $11.2 trillion in th...

Fiscal ruin of the Western world beckons No doubt Ireland has been the victim of a savagely tight monetary policy e_SEmD given its specific ...

MoM U.S. Home construction unexpectedly rose 3.6% in June but fell 52% YoY Australia Q2 Import Price Index fell -6.4% QoQ China 's June...

U.S. jobless claims fell 47,000 last week to 522,000. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's regional index of manufacturing fell from -2.2...