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(WSJ) Greece set off the crisis rattling the euro zone. Spain could determine whether the 16-nation currency stands or falls. U.S. durable ...

Fed's Bernanke confirms rates to be kept low U.S. new home sales fell 11.2% MoM -- dropping to the lowest level on record. The Mortgage ...

The Standard and Poor's/CaseShiller index of U.S. home prices fell 0.2% in December and 3.1% YoY The Conference Board's index of U.S...

The London Metal Exchange has approached the Baltic Exchange to develop an electronic exchange for freight derivatives. (FT) Saudi Arabia’s...

Europe's monetary union has become an instrument of deflation torture EMU is slowly suffocating boom-bust states trapped in debt deflat...

U.S. consumer prices rose 0.2% in January and 2.6% YoY Canada’s retail sales rose 0.4% in December Canada’s leading indicators rose 0.9% ...

(Bloomberg) The Federal Reserve Board raised the discount rate charged to banks for direct loans by a quarter point to 0.75 percent and sai...

US bank lending falls at fastest rate in history David Rosenberg from Gluskin Sheff said lending has fallen by over $100bn (£63.8bn) since...

U.S. housing starts rose 2.8% MoM U.S. Industrial production rose 0.9% in January U.S. mortgage applications fell 2.1% last week Canada ’s...

The New York Federal Reserve's regional index of manufacturing rose from 15.92 to 24.91 in February (FT) Foreign demand for US Treasury ...

(FT)Shifts in commodity prices as El Niño fades El Niño, the weather-altering Pacific warming which has hit the price of commodities from su...

U.S . retail sales rose 0.5% in January and 4.7% YoY The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment fell from 74.4 to 73.7 U.S...

U.S. jobless claims fell 43,000 last week to 440,000 Australia's unemployment rate improved from 5.5% to 5.3% in January. Spain’s GDP...

(Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve may raise the discount rate “before long” as part of the “normalization” of Fed lending, a move that won’...

Germany backs Greek bail-out as EU creates 'economic government' The breakthrough comes as this week's summit of EU leaders in B...

(Reuters) - European governments have agreed in principle to help heavily indebted Greece , a senior German coalition source said on Tuesday...

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks slid and the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed below 10,000 for the first time since November amid concern tha...

U.S jobless claims were up 8,000 last week to 480,000, U.S. factory orders rose 1.0% in December, Australia's retail sales fell 0.7% in ...

ADP Employer Services said that the US lost 22,000 jobs in January U.S. services rose from 49.8 to 50.5 in January. US mortgage applicatio...

The National Association of Realtors index of pending home sales rose 1.0% in December and 10.9% YoY YoY Producer prices in the EU fell 2.9...

Should Germany bail out Club Med or leave the euro altogether? Germany faces a terrible dilemma. Either Europe's paymaster agrees to und...

U.S . personal incomes rose 0.3% in December. YoY personal incomes fell 1.4%, the biggest decline since 1938. U.S. Consumer spending rose 0....

U.S. existing home sales fell 16.7% MoM The Dallas Fed regional index of manufacturing rose from 3.2 to 8.3 (Bloomberg) -- Copper may rise ...

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After the Massachusetts Massacre Can anyone picture Obama exerting such take-no-prisoners leadership to challenge those who threaten our own...

Canada’ s retail sales fell 0.3%. U.K . retail sales rose 3.6% EU industrial new orders rose 1.8% in November, but fell 2.0% YoY. The USDA s...

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Supreme Court Rules 5-4 Against Campaign Limitations in The Hillary The Movie Case In a decision that could have a dramatic effect on the up...

Obama has a new proposal that would force institutions to choose between commercial banking and proprietary trading, while seeking to limit ...

U.S. housing starts fell 4.0% MoM. U.S. producer prices rose 0.2% MoM and 4.4% YoY. China is telling large banks to cut back on lending --...

Canada ’s index of leading indicators rose 1.5% in December. YoY U.K. consumer prices rose 2.9% in December EU construction output fell 0.6...

(FT)China’s soaring appetites for commodities have created some of the worst traffic jams seen at ports handling bulk cargo. Ships were que...

U.S. consumer price index rose 0.1% MoM and 2.7% YoY U.S. industrial production rose 0.6% The NY Federal Reserve's index of manufacturin...

U.S. Jobless claims rose 11,000 last week to 444,000 -- more than expected. U.S. retail sales fell 0.3% in December. US inventories rose 0.4...

The Fed’s Beige Book said ten Districts reported some increased activity and improvement in conditions. The Mortgage Bankers Association sai...

America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels Realtytrac says defaults and repossessions have been running at over 300,000 a m...

World 2009-10 coffee production is expected to fall to 123.7 million (60-kilogram) bags, the International Coffee Organization said Monday. ...

China s exports rose17.7 % YoY, the first increase in 14 months, increasing the likelihood that t Beijing will restart the appreciation of t...

US Non-farm payroll fell 85K in December –more than expected U.S. Unemployment stays at 10% U.S. wholesale sales rose 3.3% in November -- st...

Shares of General Electric (NYSE: GE ) have rallied sharply on apparently no news-- volume has spiked higher. The EPA today proposed signif...

The Institute of Supply Managements' index of services rose from 48.7 to 50.1 in December. As of Jan 1st Russia barred poultry imports ...

U.S. factory orders rose 1.1% in November, better than expected. The National Association of Realtors said pending home sales fell 16% in No...

Global bear rally will deflate as Japan leads world in sovereign bond crisis By mid to late 2010, we will have lanced the biggest boils of t...

The Institute of Supply Management index of U.S. manufacturing rose from 53.6 to 55.9 in December -- better than expected, and the highest l...

(Bloomberg) -- Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist and Columbia University professor, said economists are among those at fau...

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Scramble for the Atmosphere (Monbiot) ..the barrister Polly Higgins laid out a different approach. Her declaration of planetary rights inve...

Japan kept interests rate unchanged at 0.1%. Canada's wholesale sales rose 0.3% in October Global cocoa production for 2009-10 is exp...