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The Chicago Purchasing Managers' index rose from 54.2 to 56.1 in November Lumber is up its $10 daily limit Canada ’s GDP rose 0.1% in Q3...

Bundesbank fears relapse as German banks face €90bn fresh losses The venerable bank said in its Stability Report that the world had narrowly...

The central bank of the United Arab Emirates says it is setting up a facility to provide banks with extra liquidity. The Central bank is exp...

U.S. GDP rose 0.7% in Q3, YoY GDP fell 2.5%. The Standard and Poor Case-Shiller index of home prices rose 0.3% in September. U.S. consumer ...

Spurred by a tax credits that lured first-time buyers, U.S. existing home sales rose 10.1% in October, and 23.5% YoY The National Associatio...

China's sugar imports in October rose sharply to 56,882metric tons, the General Administration of Customs said Monday. Last October, th...

Growth and recovery are expected in 2010 in most world regions, but the upturn will be modest, the OECD says. U.S. jobless claims were uncha...

U.S. consumer price index rose 0.3% MoM and fell 0.2% YoY U.S. housing starts fell 10.6% MoM. YoY Canada ’s consumer prices rose 0.1% in Oc...

U.S. producer price index rose 0.3% MoM, but fell 1.9% YoY U.S. Industrial production rose 0.1% in October. YoY U.K. consumer prices rose 1....

If Nothing Else, Save Farming According to farm scientists at Cornell University, cultivating one hectare of maize in the United States req...

The Fed is monitoring currency markets “closely” and will conduct policy in a way that will “help ensure that the dollar is strong ”, Ben B...

Mayfly May Thwart $3 Billion in Coal Mined in U.S. Mountaintops Mountaintop mining in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee and part...

China has now become the biggest risk to the world economy It is fashionable to talk of America as the supplicant. That misreads the strateg...

The US trade deficit widened by $36.5bn -- to the largest amount in 10 years. The U.S. Census Bureau said that exports rose 2.9% in Septembe...

U.S. jobless claims fell 12,000 last week to 502,000, less than expected. The U.S. Treasury sold $16 billion of 30-year T-bonds at a median...

US Treasury secretary Geithner tells reporters in Japan he believes in the need to maintain a strong dollar and that the US is determined to...

The Association of Realtors said existing home sales rose 11.4% in Q3 and up 5.9% YoY. China 's Industrial Production rose 16.1% YoY US...

The IMF said the US dollar is "on the strong side". Policy makers from this weekend's G-20 meeting in Scotland assure investor...

Unnatural disaster ..the balance works out at 96 per cent navigation, 3 per cent flood protection and 1 per cent environmental restoration.

US jobs data out worse than expected, with nonfarm payrolls up by 190,000 against expectations of 175,000 and unemployment rising from 9.8%...

U.S. jobless claims fell 20,000 to 512,000, less than expected. YoY U.S. non-farm productivity rose 9.5% in Q3 YoY U.S labor costs fell 3....

It is Japan we should be worrying about, not America Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), told th...

The Federal Reserve took small steps in the direction of a more hawkish stance on rates, tweaking its guidance on future policy for the firs...

The Federal Reserve begins its two-day meeting today and is expected to keep the federal funds rate unchanged. U.S . Factory orders rose 0.9...

The ISM index of manufacturing rose from 52.6 to 55.7 in October. U.S. employment index rose from 46.2 to 53.1 U.S. construction spending ...

Wilbur Ross Sees ‘Huge’ Commercial Real Estate Crash U.S. commercial property sales are forecast to fall to the lowest in almost two decades...

The University of Michigan index of consumer sentiment fell to 70.6 from 73.5 in Sep. U.S. personal incomes fell 0.1% in September, spending...

Central banks chill asset rally Teun Draaisma, Morgan Stanley's equity strategist, said investors should move with care as central bank...

Growth and jobs At this rate, we wouldn’t reach anything that feels like full employment until well into the second Palin administration.

U.S . GDP rose 0.9% in Q3, YoY GDP fell 2.3%. US jobless claims fell 1,000 to 530,000. The IMF expects 2010 GDP growth of 9% in China and ...

India May Import Rice, Fueling ‘Panic,’ IRRI Says (Bloomberg) -- India, the world’s second-largest rice grower, may become a net importer f...

U.S . durable goods orders rose 1.0% MoM, but fell 24.1% YoY. U.S. new home sales fell 3.6% MoM and 27% YoY. Australia 's consumer price...

Rice Market ‘On Thin Ice’ as Record Prices May Return (Update1) (Bloomberg) -- Rice prices may return to record levels as bad weather curbs ...

U.S . consumer confidence fell from 53.4 to 47.4 in October The Richmond Federal Reserve's regional index of manufacturing fell from +14...

South Korea’s GDP rose 2.6% in Q3 and 0 .6% YoY China’s copper imports totaled 282,828 tons in September, up 29%

Food will never be so cheap again The world's grain stocks have dropped from four to 2.6 months cover since 2000, despite two bumper har...

U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit, Koo Says “If you learn your lesson from the Japanese experience, you don’t remove yo...

The National Association of Realtors said U.S. existing home sales rose 9.4% in September U.K . GDP fell 0.4% in Q3 and 5.2% YoY EU industr...

U.S. jobless claims rose 11,000 last week to 531,000, more than expected. U.S . Index of leading indicators rose 1.0% in September U.S. hom...

Sharia Banking Comes to Germany The underlying concept of the Islamic banking business is the Prophet Muhammad's prohibition of interest...

Volcker Fails to Sell a Bank Strategy He wants the nation’s banks to be prohibited from owning and trading risky securities, the very practi...

Down with the dollar But if foreign investors are so concerned, why is the dollar’s decline not accompanied by a sharp rise in bond yields? ...

Australia ’s leading indicators rose 1.1% in August. YoY China s GDP rose 8.9% in Q3 The pound rallies after the Bank of England says its p...

Euro at $1.50 is 'disaster' for Europe Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia and Russia have all been buying dollars ...

U.S. Housing starts were at an annual rate of 590,000 -- up 0.5% MoM. Less than had been expected U.S. producer price index fell 0.6% in De...

A sterling crash is a godsend Politically, these countries face what options traders call "time decay". The longer it lasts, the w...

Agriculture production needs to expand by 70% through 2050, as the global population rises to 9.1 billion from 6.7 billion, Jacques Diouf, ...

U.S. Industrial production rose 0.7% in September and was revised up 1.2% for August. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment in...

U.S. jobless claims fell 10,000 to 514,000 -- the lowest in nine months. U.S. Consumer prices rose 0.2% MoM, but fell 1.3% YoY Consumer pri...