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The race to slake a continent’s thirst With its French joint-venture partner, Castel, SABMiller has 60% of Africa’s commercial beer market...

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On Monday February 27th, 2012, WikiLeaks began publishing The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquarte...

Plutocracy, Pure and Simple Shocking, fascinating, entirely unsurprising: the leaked documents, if authentic, confirm what we suspected bu...

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Prichard: Europe 's key powers are on the brink of a €130bn (£108bn) debt deal to rescue Greece and avert the first sovereign default i...

Leak exposes how Heartland Institute (Koch) works to undermine climate science. Equinix (EQIX) fourth-quarter profit rose 29% Moody...

@ TheDailyShow @RickSantorum "Government cannot force you to pay for something that violates faith or beliefs." // Great advice...

Germany's Carthaginian terms for Greece Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The last time Germany needed a bail-out from world creditors, it secur...

In the US, since 1900, the longest anyone has had to wait for a positive return from a position in stocks (Index) is 17 years. In Italy its ...

Inflation in China is higher than expected in January at 4.5% Greek jobless rate hits new record high at 20.9% Dr Pepper Snapple (DPS ...

Warren Buffett: Why stocks beat gold and bonds The second major category of investments involves assets that will never produce anything, b...

KO profit was 79 cents a share, exceeding the 77-cent average estimate. MoM Japan's coincident index posted an increase of 2.9 poin...

An orderly EMU break-up, à la Française "Even though our American and Chinese competitors have an interest in the survival of the sing...

As cold temperatures in Eastern Europe stretching all the way into France feed wheat concern about supplies there. "It's just too ...

(FT) The Costa Concordia and the less-known Ponta de Madeira incident have prompted disquiet over maritime industry’s pursuit of scale effic...

The CME said it would create a $100 million fund to protect farmers and ranchers from losing their funds in the event of another collapse l...

(EIU) wages are growing at 12% per year in China. Globalstar, (GSAT), announced its commercial and recreational customers are experiencing...

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...

US undermined by leaks

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, ...