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(Bloomberg) Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said an oil price of $70 to $80 a barrel is in the best interests of Saudi Arabia because it diminis...

Morgan Stanley lifted its Brent oil forecast to $120 a barrel this year. The market is watching the Icelandic volcano eruption, with a l...

S&P 500 profits may reach $104.73 in the next 12 months. Biggs “stocks reasonably priced” Ohio may have only 10% corn planted sai...

(Bloomberg) -- Standard & Poor’s threat that it may cut Italy’s credit rating risks fanning contagion among debt- laden European countri...

France’s soft-wheat harvest, the largest in the European Union, will decline 12% as drought slashes yields, Agritel said. U.S. Crude suppl...

U.S. Housing starts have dropped 10.6% to an annual rate of 523,000 in April Soros said his hedge fund dumped nearly all of its gold h...

YoY India’s wholesale-price index rose 8.66% in April Japanese core machinery order rose 2.9% in March. Voters in the Swiss region of Z...

Fears grow that US unready for larger Panama canal From 2014 some of the largest ships in the world will again fit through the 80 kilomete...

Bank of Korea unexpectedly keept rates unchanged The median home-sale price in the Las Vegas area in 2006 was $313,500; in 2010 it fell ...

Hindering harvests Using such data researchers have now compiled an estimate of global changes in crop yields which can be put down to rece...

S & P has again cut Greece ’s credit rating, downgrading it by two notches to B. Apple’s products are great and its earnings are soar...

(Arlan Suderman) Historically, December corn has a strong tendency to take out the spring high when new-crop stocks are projected below a 50...

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on Friday lifted its inflation forecasts for the next two years, with a statement saying that further ti...

The central bank of Mexico bought nearly 100 tonnes of gold in February and March. The DOE said: Crude oil inventory rose by 3.42 mill...

Brazil 's industrial production rose 2.3 in Q1 Industrial producer prices in the Eurozone rose by 0.7 % MoM Funds led by well-known...

Two weeks until the U.S.debt ceiling is hit, Treasury Sec. Geithner says U.S. Corn planting progress as of Sunday: 13% v 40% average. Ja...

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South Korea’s exports expanded 26.6% YoY, compared with a revised 28.9% gain in March. Chinese manufacturing index fell to 52.9 in April...

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(Bloomberg) -- China’s banking regulator set capital targets for the nation’s five biggest lenders above the minimum 11.5 percent ratio amid...

China must be vigilant against possible price fluctuations caused by rising costs that the U.S. faces to issuing debt, citing People's B...

Lessons from the Credit-Anstalt Collapse "Because we remember the Credit-Anstalt, we will not make that mistake," DeLong says. ...

MoM German PPI rose a less than expected 0.4% in March and rose 6.2% YoY. Sweden's central bank Wednesday raised its interest rat...

The Canadian Wheat Board said the start to the season is 10 days to three weeks behind schedule. YoY U.S. housing starts rose 549,000 in...

S&P put a “negative” outlook on the U.S. AAA credit rating, citing rising budget deficits and debt. The Dow Jones industrial futures sa...

Chinas reserve ratios will rise a half point from April 21, the People’s Bank of China said. Greenspan warns of US Debt Crisis and urg...

Shortage Threat Drives Texas Schools Hoarding Bullion at HSBC “If you own a paper contract where they can only deliver you 10 cents on the...

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Goldman Sachs Misled Congress After Duping Clients (Bloomberg)Senator Carl Levin, releasing the findings of a two-year inquiry, said he wan...

U.S. retail sales rose 0.4%, falling short of pre-report expectations of 0.5%. Investors were buying more silver than ever, underpinning ...

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Lessons From a Meltdown But truly long term planning has never been a forte of our species. So the urgency of our energy needs combined wit...

(Bloomberg) -- All the soybeans in Iowa won’t be enough to meet the anticipated surge in China’s imports over the next four years as the nat...

The U.S. dollar is losing more ground on fears of  shutdown for the U.S. government. The two sides had agreed on everything but a $300 milli...

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Republicans are pushing legislation that would dramatically expand offshore drilling before mandating new safety requirements. The ECB ra...

Boehner: No deal yet on avoiding shutdown. Household saving rate at 9.1% in Austria. Australian employment at 4.9%. China has halte...

China raised rates to 6.31% from 6.06%. The ISM index decreased to 57.3 from 59.7 in February The Supreme Court opened the door to a ...

Chinese buyers stopped new orders of scrap steel from Japan and blocked some existing cargoes because of concern over radiation from a cri...

Atomic Moron George Monbiot Monbiot and his cult of technofascism either fail to understand the difference between radiation that is outs...

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to to 8.8% last month, the lowest level since March 2009. (AP) NASDAQ is teaming up with Intercontinental...

More than 61 feet of snow has fallen in the 400-mile-long Sierra Nevada mountain range this season, second only to the 1950-51 season when a...