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[William Sawyer], the [veteran] Florida toxicologist, said the government tests do not look for total petroleum hydrocarbons in the seafood....

YoY Sweden's GDP rose 6.9% in Q3. The Chicago Fed's Midwest Mfg Index rose 0.7% to 80.9, the highest reading since July U.K. hou...

EU rescue costs start to threaten Germany itself "Germany cannot keep paying for bail-outs without going bankrupt itself," said ...

Brazilian navy plans a fleet of 20 subs, six nuclear powered. The U.S. Justice Department filed a brief that declared, for the first time,...

China's demand for vegetable oils will "rise sizably" despite efforts to slow its economy, Oil World says. Nearly 70% of Am...

Portugal next as EMU's Máquina Infernal keeps ticking The eurozone will face its moment of existential danger the day that Portugal is...

Investors question whether international efforts to halt a full-blown Eurozone debt crisis are enough. The new Basel III banking rules w...

India may produce 8.7 % less Sugar than estimated as rain pests and disease reduce yields. (FT) Top mints have seen their silver coin sale...

Why America will come to regret the craven deal Obama is offering Netanyahu. By Christopher Hitchens This craven impotence will be notic...

China may impose temporary price controls on “important daily necessities” to counter the fastest inflation in two years, the State Council ...

The horrible truth starts to dawn on Europe's leaders He is admitting that the gamble of launching a premature and dysfunctional curre...

(Bloomberg) China may impose price limits on food and toughen punishment of those found speculating on agriculture futures including corn an...

(MarketWatch) -- German industrial giant Siemens AG raised its dividend for the latest fiscal year by 70% and outlined Thursday a new divide...

China posted a larger-than-forecast $27.1 billion October trade surplus. Exports gained 22.9 % YoY and imports rose 25.3 %. The CFTC plan...

(World Bank) Asian economies may need to turn to capital controls as quantitative easing by the U.S. threatens to spur asset bubbles... US...

The longer than usual Indian monsoon, which usually ends by mid to late September, is reducing exports of iron ore . (Market Watch) -- Sh...

YoY Colombia's coffee output is set to rise 11% in 2010/11 (October-September) to 9 million 60-kg bags, the country's exporters ass...

Doubts grow over wisdom of Ben Bernanke 'super-put' Bond funds are already restive. Pimco's Bill Gross says the great bull mark...

Volcker Rule to Hurt Shareholders, Competitiveness, Bachus Says The rule aims to reduce the chance that banks will make risky investments ...

Copper to Surge on ‘Mammoth Demand,’ Standard Chartered Says “Things are not looking very rosy on the supply side given Chile and Peru’s red...

U.S. factory orders in September rose 2.1%, the third consecutive monthly increase. The Fed will buy an additional $600 billion of Treasur...

Aussie dollar breaks the buck as Australia, India fight Fed with 'quantitative tightening' Australia's reserve bank said the ...

India boosted interest rates by a quarter-point to 6.25. Australia ’s central bank surprises the market with a 0.25 interest rate increas...

U.S. Durable goods rose by 3.3% in September to $199.2 billion. U.S new home sales rose 6.6% in September to a seasonally adjusted annual...

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose at a slower pace than forecast in August from a year earlier, reflecting slumping sales as the effects of...

Toxic Brew Most of these bodies call themselves “free market thinktanks”, but their trick, as (Astro)Turf Wars points out, is to conflate cr...

The WikiLeaks Iraq Logs A Protocol of Barbarity The online whistleblower platform WikiLeaks is posting close to 400,000 US military report...

The Treasury Department sold $10 billion in 5-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities on Monday at a yield of negative -0.55%, the fir...

German boom creates ECB policy nightmare as south lags "Germany is recovering brilliantly," said S&P's Jean-Michel Six....

The Next Idiot Might Be You More than one hundred fifty years ago, two candidates for state senate conducted a series of seven debates, vyin...

U.S. Initial jobless claims fell by 23,000 to 452,000 in the week ended Oct. 15 Russia to privatize 900 state enterprises by 2015 IMF...

Bank of China lifts deposit rates a quarter of a percentage point. (Bloomberg) Silver exports from China, the world’s largest, may drop ...

Brazil's sugar output for the 2010-2011 crop season is expected to reach 40.5 million metric tons, said F.O. Licht on Monday. The Phil...

Elwyn Taylor on Twitter: Omen? La Niña development to date is most like 1973, the next year (1974) was not good for US corn . Typhoon Megi...

The Subprime Debacle: Act 2 " But once mortgage loan securitization happened, things got sloppy...they got sloppy by the very nature...

The Fed’s Bernanke is a step closer to adopting a formal inflation target saying that most of the body’s officials think that price rises sh...

Currency wars are necessary if all else fails The atomic bomb, of course, is quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve. America has in effe...

The number of people who signed up for unemployment benefits rose 13,000 to 462,000 Spain’s September CPI rose 2.1% YoY Bad weather has ...

The Values of Everything The acceptance of policies which counteract our interests is the pervasive mystery of the 21st Century. In the Uni...

China posted a $16.9 billion trade surplus for September. Exports rose 25.1% YoY and imports climbed 24.1%. Japan ese machinery orders ro...

(Bloomberg) -- As many as 9 million U.S. mortgages in the foreclosure pipeline or already through the process may face legal challenges bec...

Barclay’s sees CBOT December corn above $6 per bushel. Indonesia is seeking 700,000 metric tons of rice from Vietnam to replenish domestic...