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Money figures show there's trouble ahead The overwhelming fact is that private spending has slumped in the deficit countries of the Ang...

(WSJ) The G-20 is near an agreement that would require members to submit economic policies to a type of "peer review." The group a...

U.S. jobless claims fell 21,000 last week to 530,000 U.S. existing home sales (5.10 million units) fell 2.7% MoM. U.S. inventory of homes r...

U.S. mortgage applications rose 12.8% last week. Industrial orders in the EU rose 1.6% MoM, but fell 24.9% YoY Britain's economy may be ...

The dollar resumed its broad sell-off, dipping under ¥91 and coming close to its fresh 12-month low versus the euro. The Richmond Federal Re...

U.S. index of leading indicators rose 0.6% in August The USDA said there were 9.882 million head of cattle on feed as of September 1st, dow...

Canada ’s wholesale sales rose 2.8% in July to C$41.7 billion China buys another 6.7 million bushels of US soybeans . Analyst says recent f...

New building cancellations to top 40% of current dry bulk orderbook says National Bank of Greece But, new building cancellations will reach ...

U.S. housing starts rose 1.5% from July's pace U.S. jobless claims fell 12,000 last week to 545,000 The Philadelphia Federal Reserve...

Kinross Says Gold Industry Faces Reserve Crisis (Bloomberg) -- Kinross Gold Corp., Canada’s third- largest producer of the precious metal, s...

U.S. consumer price index rose 0.4% MoM and fell 1.5% YoY U.S . Industrial production rose 0.8% in August -- better than expected. U.S. Capa...

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the worst U.S. recession since the 1930s has probably ended, while warning that...

China called for talks over its trade quarrel with the U.S. in a sign the dispute may be containable. EU industrial production fell 0.2% in ...

A 20-year-old Styrian (Austria) was slapped with a 50 Euros fine when he farted as he talked to cops.

Lehman is a footnote in the great East-West globalisation crisis As my colleague Jeremy Warner puts it, Lehman no more caused the economic ...

China Government ‘Strongly Opposes’ U.S. Tire Tariff Imposition “By taking this unprecedented action, the Obama administration is now at od...

U.S. wholesale sales rose 0.5% in July U.S. Inventories fell 1.4% in July The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment rose ...

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U.S. jobless claims fell 26,000 last week to 550,000 -- less than expected. U.S. exports rose $2.7 billion in July while imports rose $7.2 ...

The Mortgage Bankers Association said that its index of U.S. mortgage applications rose 17% last week Canada's housing starts rose 12% ...

The Great Cop-Out … The banks only know for sure whether they have made a profit on a loan, transaction or investment when they get the capi...

U.K . manufacturing output rose 0.9% in July. Brazil's estimates the 2009-2010 coffee crop at 39 million bags, down from 46 million bag...

Does the world have the courage to deal with its debts? CPI inflation has dropped to –2.2pc in Japan (a modern record), -2.1pc in the US, -1...

U.S. unemployment rate rose from 9.4% to 9.7% -- the number was a little less than expected. Canada unemployment rate rose from 8.6% to 8.7...

Indian Sugar Fears Rain, Frost After Monsoon Heat India's cane crop, which started small after years of cheap government purchase prices...

The U.S. Institute of Supply Management's index of services rose from 46.4 to 48.4 in August U.S. jobless claims fell 4,000 last week to...

U.S. factory orders rose 1.3%. YoY U.S. non-farm productivity rose 1.9% in Q2. The number of hours worked fell 7.2% and unit labor costs fe...

The Institute of Supply Management's manufacturing index rose from 48.9 to 52.9 in August The National Association of Realtor's ind...

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...

Can the soufflé really rise again?

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...