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Dutch pigeon sold for record £209,000: http://tgr.ph/xO92Oo The S&P/Case-Shiller composite index of single-family home prices in 20 m...

(Bloomberg) -- Russia has exported close to 20 million metric tons of wheat in the 2011-2012 marketing year and has “very little grain left...

Brazil’ s cuts benchmark interest rate to 10.5% Brazil's unemployment rate fell to a record-low 4.7% in December from the 5.3% in the s...

The U.S. economy has been "expanding moderately", so the Fed's expects to keep rates low through "late 2014" The D...

U.S. Corporate profitability is at an all time high. Nearly 60% of S&P listed companies have so far beaten earnings estimates for the l...

According to Bloomberg, the average prediction by analysts of the number of Nokia Lumia smartphones believed to be sold so far is 1.3 millio...

Some See Two New Gilded Ages, Raising Global Tensions But there is another force that is reshaping the global economy today, and the Goldma...

Microsoft ( MSFT ) posted Q4 income of $6.62 billion, or 78 cents a share - beating the 76-cent average estimate. Citrus-greening disease ...

How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each gues...

U.S. average hourly earnings rose 0.2% from November to December GM is again the world's largest automaker. Boosted by its Chevrolet b...

U.S. producer price index fell by 0.1% in December. U.S. industrial production rose by 0.4% in December The National Association of Home B...

China fourth-quarter GDP grows 8.9% China’s Industrial output rose 12.8% YoY -- trade expected 12.2% U.K. CPI fell to 4.2% in December f...

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Yields on German short-term debt fell below zero last week, meaning investors accept a negative return for debt from Deutschland, after S...

The Perils of 2012 Joseph E. Stiglitz The good news is that addressing these long-term problems would actually help to solve the short-ter...

The USDA put corn ending stocks at 846 million bushels, down 2 million from the month prior and 282 million under a year ago. U.S. corn st...

Orange juice futures went limit up for a second day after a warning by food watchdogs of finding Carbendazimin in imports from Brazil. This...

The U.S. economy created 200,000 non-farm payroll jobs last month -- unemployment fell to 8.5%. S. Korea's producer prices rose 0.2%...

The U.S. ISM rose in December to 52.6% from November's 52.0%, a reading that nonetheless was below the 53.3% expected. The DOE said in...

According to Dow Trend Earnings (aka Fed model) the Dow should be trading at $45,769 "Trust me" is not enough of a safeguard, ...

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Happy Birthday, Bill [of Rights]: Obama Breaks Promise To Veto Bill Allowing Indefinite Detention of Americans I am not sure which is worse:...

Having vetoed his way into isolation at last week's European Union summit, Cameron is now looking for allies. Spain ’s ten-year yiel...

Steve Freed analyst with ADM is expecting a bullish Jan. corn report saying that yield should be cut 1.5 bushels an acre = tight carryout. ...

Say goodbye to Xe. The company formerly known as Blackwater — the world’s most infamous private security corporation — has also jettisoned t...

Every Euro pean nation except for Britain (Cameron is trying to “protect bankers from regulation") agreed to consider forging closer ec...

U.S. wholesale inventories roe 1.6% in October. U.S. initial jobless claims in the week ending Dec. 3 fell 23,000 to 381,000. ECB cut...

The DoE increased crude oil stocks by 1.3 million barrels in the week ending December 2, gasoline stocks rose by 5.1 million barrels, and di...

Occupied Washington Americans are not opposed to the rich getting richer—as John Steinbeck is said to have noted, "Socialism never too...

Martell Crop Projections, warned that "intense heat and moisture stress has developed in a swathe of South America of the past month...

U.S. factory orders fell by 0.4% in October after falling a downwardly revised 0.1% in September Cargill is firing 2,000 people due to “co...

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.6% in November, the lowest level in more than two and a half years. (FT) Globally, wireless capacity...

Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer I’m a very rich person. As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, I’ve star...

US jobless claims back above 400,000 again. U.S. construction spending rose 0.8% in October The ISM said its manufacturing index in Novem...

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U.S. consumer confidence rose 15 points to 56 in November – the largest gain since 2003. Standard & Poor's lower ratings on 37 ban...

(Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy are planning more drastic means - including a quick new Sta...

It is not inevitable that the EU – or democracy – will survive this mess   Pessimism always has the best tunes, and I remain instinctively a...

Poll: Fox News Viewers Are Less Informed Than Those Watching No News . Why has no one at MF Global nor Corzine been charged by powers that...

Self-serving myths of Europe’s neo-Calvinists The hallmark of fiscal integration is mutualisation – a greater pooling of budgetary resourc...

You may want to examine the Euro Dollar and Libor Fed Funds Spread charts.

U.S. leading indicators rose 0.9%, the most since February (SBMRY) SabMiller the brewer reported that fiscal first-half net income rose 2...

MoM U.S. October Retail Sales rose 0.5%; MoM U.S. PPI fell 0.3% in October and 5.9% YoY Canada: Manufacturing Shipments rose 2.6% in Sept...

A limitless power source for the indefinite future Some background: By 2030–40, the projected annual electrical energy consumption will be...

Pritchard: The ECB is under intense pressure to step up purchases of Italian bonds after premier Silvio Berlusconi finally relinquished powe...

Dispelling An Enduring Myth With One Image If the Earth’s temperature was the same year after year, then the effects of increasing greenho...

YoY U.S. intermodal traffic rose 3.5% for the week ended Saturday The Greek Unemployment rate in August 2011 was 18.4% compared to 12.2% i...

Bonuses were paid to MF Global ‘s UK staff just hours before the company filed for bankruptcy protection in New York. (Bloomberg) A kilogr...

(Washington Post) Wall Street firms — either independent companies or the high-flying trading arms of banks — are doing even better. They’v...