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The total cost of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the U.S. Treasury will run at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4...

PIMCO Founder To Deficit-Obsessed Congress: Get Back To Reality In a prospectus for clients, Bill Gross, a co-founder of investment managem...

Bank JPMorgan charged with misleading investors in mortgage-related security, settles SEC charges for $153m U.S Existing Home Sales fel...

(Reuters) Fitch says if U.S. debt ceiling not raised by August 2 then will put U.S. on rating watch negative. (MarketWatch) -- SABMiller P...

U.S. housing starts rose 3.5% in May. However, starts still remained 5.6% below levels seen in March and well below levels needed to turn t...

Japan's government is considering evacuating more towns affected by the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. The USDA cut U.S. new-crop corn ...

Ancient wheat plague threatens world crops anew Whipping winds can transport spores as many as 100 miles (160 kilometers) per day, raising ...

Nuclear fuel has melted through base of Fukushima plant The findings of the report, which has been given to the International Atomic Energy...

OPEC couldn't agree on an increase in production quotas. (FT) BP statistical review of world energy shows China accounted for 20.3%t...

10 physical gestures that have been patented Apple is trying to claim ownership of everything from an infinity gesture on your phone, to s...

UN proposes commodity deal tax to curb speculation The United Nations has proposed a tax on commodity transactions, and government interve...

Wheat Rallying 20% as Parched Fields Wilt From China to Kansas Parts of China, the biggest grower, had the least rain in a century, some ...

US unemployment rose from 9% to 9.1%, analysts had expected a fall to 8.9%. Chinese ratings agency Dagong Global Credit Rating put France...

Climate change curbs crops Warming has already lowered yields of wheat and corn. Farmers have produced less food during the past three de...

The DOE reported an increase of 2.9 million barrels of oil. Analysts expected a decrease around 1.9 million barrels. The EIA reported an in...

The ISM index of U.S. manufacturing activity fell to 53.5% last month from 60.4 in April. Macau says gambling revenue surges 42% in May --...

(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. ...