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U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell by 16,000 in the week ending September 25 to 453,000. Soybean inventories on Sept. 1 totaled 1...

China said it will slap a hefty tariff on U.S. chicken imports to combat what it says are unfairly low prices. The New import duties range f...

Gold is the final refuge against universal currency debasement So we have an early 1930s world where surplus states are hoarding money, in...

U.S. Durable goods for August fell 1.3%, the largest decline in a year, but excluding transportation orders, new orders rose 2%. The ICG c...

The IGC cut by 5m tonnes, to 824m tonnes, its forecast for the global corn harvest in 2010-11.The IGC raised by 4m tonnes to 12m tonnes its...

YoY U.S. House prices fell 3.3 % in July, the eighth consecutive decline, as foreclosed properties flooded the market, the Federal Housing ...

(Bloomberg) -- Record- low interest rates are stoking the biggest increase in U.S. share buybacks ever. John Bird, chief operating office...

Weather forecasts refer to a "widespread crop ending hard freeze" across Northern Alberta southeastward to Central Saskatchewan wi...

Brazil's drought has lowered the Amazon water level to its lowest in 47 years. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology reported Wednesda...

Disappointing results from the early corn harvest in Illinois are not likely to improve as farmers continue gathering the crop. That's t...

The Basel Committee rules Yet the real show of generosity from the committee was in the timing of the new regime. Banks will have until Janu...

Global banking regulators in Basel, Switzerland have reached a deal on key parts of a major capital reform package, increasing the key capit...

Inventories at U.S. wholesalers rose 1.3% in July QoQ Italy's gross domestic product grew by 0.5% in Q2 and by 1.3% % YoY The Consu...

New claims for U.S. unemployment insurance dropped by 27,000 to 451,000 -- more than expected, to their lowest level in two months The U....

Stocks are helped today by a successful Portuguese debt offering easing risk aversion. Canada nudged its overnight rate target up 0.25% to...

China’s young officers and the 1930s syndrome “China’s military spending is growing so fast that it has overtaken strategy,” said Professor...

Fresh worries about European banks sent stocks lower early Tuesday. The euro slid broadly and the yen hit a 15-year high. Obama will annou...

Private U.S. payrolls that exclude government jobs increased 67,000, after a revised 107,000 increase in July, Labor Department figures show...

Pending U.S. home resale’s rose 5.2% after a revised 2.8% drop the previous month. U.S. first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell ...

Obama was too cautious in fearful times Panglossians who believe the private economy is always in equilibrium, unless governments interven...

China ’s PMI rose to 51.7 in August from 51.2 in July. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index rose to 56.3 from 55.5 in July ...

U.S. Consumer confidence rose to 53.5 in August from a revised 51.0 in July The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Indice...

U.S. Consumer spending rose 0.4% in July U.S. Personal income rose 0.2%. The Semiconductor Industry Association said worldwide semicondu...

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. central bank “will do all that it can” to ensure a continuation of the...

Initial claims for U.S. unemployment benefits fell 31,000 to 473,000 last week, below market expectations for a drop to 490,000. But the fou...

Truck tonnage continued its string of YoY gains, rising 7.4% in July from last year, the eighth straight increase, American Trucking Associa...

The National Association of Realtors said U.S. sales of previously owned homes dropped a record 27.2 % from June to an annual rate of 3.83 m...

A composite index of euro -area purchasing managers fell to 56.1 from 56.7 in July Buckwheat disappeared from all food stores across Mosco...

MoM U.S. home foreclosures rose nearly 4% in July to a total of 325,229, marking the 17th consecutive month with a foreclosure activity tota...

Drought drives decade-long decline in plant growth: study Zhao and Running's analysis showed that since 2000, high- latitude Norther...

U.S. Mortgage applications rose 13%. The increase was driven by a 17% surge in applications to refinance home loans, the Mortgage Bankers As...

(Arlan Suderman)  Iowa State plant pathologist says "over 50%" of Iowa soybean fields affected by Sudden Death Syndrome this year...

The New York Fed said it’s "Empire State" general business conditions index increased to 7.10 in August from 5.08 in July. The fig...

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Germany’s exports rose 3.8% MoM. Soil is too dry for Russian wheat growers to sow the winter crop. They have a window to do that between la...

Commodity spike queers the pitch for Bernanke's QE2 Do we have any assurance that central banks have learnt their lesson? Clearly not ...

The U.S. jobless rate held steady at 9.5%. Non-farm payrolls fell 131,000, while private employment rose 71,000 after increasing 31,000 in...

Wheat prices go limit up in Chicago after  Vladimir Putin announces a ban on grain exports from drought-stricken Russia. Ukraine cancels con...

The Institute for Supply Management said its services index rose to 54.3 from 53.8 in June. The report's employment component rose to 50...

EU producer price index rose 0.3% in June. U.S. factory orders fell 1.2% in June The U.S. savings rate rose to 6.4% in June -- the highest...

S.Korea’s exports up 29.6% YoY MSCI Asia ex-Japan index up 1% China 's PMI index fell to a 17-month low of 51.2 from 52.1 in June. F...

Hot political summer as China throttles rare metal supply and claims South China Sea The US Magnetic Materials Association said America has...

China's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to expand more than 9 percent in 2010, Yi Gang, head of the State Administration of For...

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...