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Spanish unemployment rose for a 12th consecutive quarter to 20.09%, its highest level since the end of 1997 and up from 20.05% in Q1. The U...

U.S. initial jobless claims dropped by 11,000 in the week ended July 24 from a revised 468,000 EU economic sentiment indicator for the 16...

Research says climate change undeniable Peter Stott, head of climate monitoring at the UK’s Met Office, said the research based on a total...

Australian consumer prices rose by less than expected. QoQ Australia’s consumer price index rose 0.6%, and 3.1% YoY. U.S. durable goods or...

India raised rates.  Repo rate and reverse repo rate move up to 5.75 percent and 4.5 percent, from 5.5 percent and 4 percent, respectively. ...

Shipping Bottoming as China Steel Rebound Lifts Ore (Update2) (Bloomberg) -- The smallest profits in the commodity shipping market in 18 m...

YoY Japan’s exports rose 27.7% in June. Shipments to Asia, which account for more than half of Japan's total exports, rose 31.7 %. Sout...

Rylko, director of the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies, said it was likely that Russia is going to harvest only 80 million tonnes ...

The Death of Paper Money As they prepare for holiday reading in Tuscany, City bankers are buying up rare copies of an obscure book on the m...

Microsoft (MSFT) and ARM (ARMH) announced that they have signed a new licensing agreement for the ARM(R) architecture Adverse weather is sl...

(Dow Jones)--Investors' reaction will be negative to Hungary's failure over the weekend to reach a deal with the International Monet...

Japan 's Tertiary industry index fell  0.9%  in May. MoM The University of Michigan’s consumer confidence index fell to 66.5  from 76 ...

US producer prices fell 0.5% in June, signaling a slow economy. China 's CPI, the country's key inflation gauge, rose 2.9% YoY, bu...

Baltic dries up FOR most of the past two decades the main measure of shipping costs has been used as a guide to what is happening to world t...

U.S. retail sales fell 0.5% last month, with consumers cutting back for a second straight month. U.S . business inventories rose 0.1%, the ...

Intel reported the best quarter in its history. (FT) QoQ Singapre' s GDP expanded at a 26% annual pace China 's leading credit...

Chinese rating agency strips Western nations of AAA status The US falls to AA, while Britain and France slither down to AA-. Belgium, Spa...

Greece cuts deficit by 46% YoY -- beating target YoY India ’s industrial output rose 11.5% in May FO Licht raised World 2010-11 corn out...

Google climbed premarket as China renewed its Internet license. The USDA's U.S. 2010-2011 ending stocks estimate for: Corn was lowered f...

EMU break-up risks global deflation shock that would dwarf Lehman collapse, warns ING A full-fledged disintegration of the eurozone would t...

U.S. jobless claims fell 21,000 last week to 454,000 The International Monetary Fund upgraded its 2010 global growth forecast from 4.2% to ...

TEXT-China spells out gold reserve policy Finally, increasing the gold reserve will not help much in diversifying China's foreign exchan...

GDP in the EU rose 0.2% in Q1 and 0.5% YoY (Bloomberg) Sugar rose in New York on speculation India, the world’s second-biggest grower, will...

The Institute of Supply Management's index of services fell from 55.4 to 53.8 in June Australia kept its interest rate unchanged at 4.5...

Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to...

Rabobank estimates U.S. corn stocks at 9.1% of consumption - the lowest for 15 years. Rabobank said that Thailand's sugar production co...

With the US trapped in depression, this really is starting to feel like 1932 Perhaps naively, I still think central banks have the tools to...

The U.S. lost 125,000 jobs in June as temporary census workers exited the labor force. The private sector added 83,000 jobs. The unemploymen...

U.S. jobless claims rose 13,000 last week to 472,000, more than expected U.S. Pending home sales fell 30% MoM and down 16% YoY U.S. Manufact...

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 ...