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The International Monetary Fund’s gold holdings fell 15.25 metric tons in May, according to figures from the Washington-based lender’s webs...

(Reuters) - A new United Nations report released on Tuesday calls for abandoning the U.S. dollar as the main global reserve currency, saying...

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U.S. GDP rose 0.7% in Q1 and up 2.4% YoY The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index rose from 73.6 to 76.0 in June Japan...

U.S. jobless claims fell 19,000 last week to 457,000 U.S. durable goods orders fell 1.1% in May, the first decline in six months YoY Japan...

Purchases of new homes in the U.S. fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 300,000, the lowest since records begin in 1963. Sales in M...

The Quiet Coup Not surprisingly, Wall Street ran with these opportunities. From 1973 to 1985, the financial sector never earned more than 1...

U.S. existing home sales fell 2.2% from April's pace. The Richmond Federal Reserve's regional index of manufacturing fell from +26 t...

Gold reclaims its currency status as the global system unravels The World Gold Council said on Friday that the central banks of Russia, the ...

Yuan Unshackled May Strengthen China Shift to Domestic Demand (Bloomberg) -- China’s signal of an end to the yuan’s fixed rate to the dollar...

Canada ’s leading indicators rose 0.9% in May Mexico met market expectations by leaving the country s key interest rate unchanged at 4.5% (...

ECB must buy 'hundred of billions' of bonds to tame Europe's debt crisis "If the euro falls to parity or down to 80 cents a...

U.S. jobless claims rose 12,000 last week to 472,000, more than expected. U.S. consumer price index fell 0.2% MoM and rose 2.0% YoY The Ph...

Italian economists slam austerity measures "Some countries will be pushed out of the eurozone, others will break away to free themselve...

Spain ’s central bank plans to publish the results of “stress tests” on the country’s financial institutions. US industrial production rose ...

The New York Federal Reserve's regional index of manufacturing rose from 19.1 to 19.57 The National Association of Home Builders' s...

EU industrial production rose 0.5% MoM and up 7.8% YoY (Bloomberg) -- Greece’s credit rating was cut four steps to non-investment grade, ...

U.S. retail sales fell 1.2% in May and rose 6.9% YoY The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment rose from 73.6 to 75.5 in...

U.S. jobless claims fell 3,000 to 456,000 The U.S. trade deficit rose to the highest level in more than a year, according to Commerce Depart...

U.S. wholesale sales rose 0.7% in April U.S. inventories rose 0.4%. US mortgage applications fell 5.7% -- the lowest level in three years. ...

Brazil's economy grew 9% in the first three months of 2010 - its fastest rate in at least 14 years. (NYT) Scientists say our ability to ...

G20 drops support for fiscal stimulus In a letter to the rest of the G20, Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, argued: “Concerns about growt...

Pariah Nation By ALEXANDER COCKBURN There’s a political price to be paid for manifest wimpery. Obama is running up a hefty bill.

U.S. unemployment rate improved from 9.9% to 9.7% in May Canada’s unemployment rate stayed at 8.1% EU GDP rose 0 .2% in Q1 and up 0.5% YoY ...

Oil leaking from a BP PLC (BP) well in the Gulf of Mexico might soon find its way around Florida and along thousands of miles of Atlantic c...

The National Association of Realtors index of pending home sales rose 6% in April and up 22% YoY The Mortgage Bankers Association's ind...

A second larger Icelandic volcano, Katla, has shown signs of imminent eruption, again threatening the movement of aircraft in Europe and eas...

Fitch cut its credit rating for Spain from AAA to AA+ U.S. personal incomes rose 0.4% in April. U.S. Consumer spending was unchanged in Apr...

Spain is trapped in a 'perverse spiral' as wage cuts deepen the crisis This can end only in two ways. Either Germany tolerates mass...

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EU Crafts $928 Billion Show of Force to Halt Crisis (Bloomberg) -- European finance ministers put together an unprecedented loan package tha...

EU Finance Ministers Race to Ready Euro Fund Before Asia Opens Jolted into action by last week’s slide in the currency to the lowest in 14 m...

(Reuters) - U.S. nonfarm payrolls grew at the fastest pace in four years in April as private sector employers ramped up hiring, raising the ...

ECB paralysis rattles markets as debt costs hit new highs "Governor Trichet came very close to saying that the current mess is not the ...

Greek lawmakers approved the government's 30 billion euro ($40 billion) austerity bill in a vote in parliament. US equity prices whips...

The Institute of Supply Management's index of services stayed at 55.4 in April US mortgage applications rose 13% last week as buyers ru...

Euro plunges as Club Med debt fears spread Stephen Jen from BlueGold Capital, said the Greek rescue "kicks the can down the road...

U.S. factory orders rose 1.3% in March U.S. pending home sales rose 5.3% in March and up 21.1% YoY Manufacturing in China fell from 57.0 to...

The EU and IMF finally put together a Greek bailout of 110 billion Euros. Manufacturing for the Euro area rose from 56.6 to 57.6 in April ...

Buffett Says Derivatives Law May Spare Berkshire on Collateral “If for any reason the Treasury should go back and, in a more sweeping declar...

U.S. GDP rose 0.8% in Q1 and up 2.5% YoY The University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment rose from 69.5 to 72.2 The Chicago Pu...

DJ Louisiana Parish Pres: Spill To Hit Pass-a-Loutre Nature Reserve Late Thu U.S. jobless claims fell 11,000 last week to 448,000. Brazil...

EMU domino fears as Spain downgraded, Germany drags feet on rescue Europe risks the biggest coordination failure in modern history,” said D...

The Mortgage Bankers Association's index of mortgage applications fell 2.9% last week. China's Ag Ministry said that snow in northea...

Olive Oil and Snake Oil In an e-mail to his girlfriend, he called his “Frankenstein” creation “a product of pure intellectual masturbation, ...

Maastricht madhouse fuels EMU-wide contagion from Greece If so, we will find out soon. Four professors will launch a legal challenge in ear...

The S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices in twenty U.S. cities fell 0.9% MoM, but rose 0.6% YoY IBM is increasing its dividend payout b...

'Serious deficit' could send cocoa to record highs And even growers prepared to invest in plantations , in Ivory Coast or elsewhere...

Brain-like computing on an organic molecular layer The monolayer has intelligence; it can solve many problems on the same grid.

CHINA is expected to become a dominant force in the world animal feed market. Pork consumption has doubled in the past ten years. Compound f...