Sunday, October 05, 2014

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The U.S. adds 248,000 new jobs in Sept. - the jobless rate falls to 5.9 %  U.S., Brazil strike new deal to end decade-old cotton t...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

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Saturday, June 28, 2014

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Last month was the hottest May in terms of global surface temperature in a historical record that extends back 130 years, according to N...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

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(FT) Should the global oil market lose all of Iraq’s exports, traders and analysts reckon it would add at least $40-$50 to a barrel of oil...
Sunday, June 08, 2014

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Monday, May 26, 2014

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(NYT) “We just get The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times,” superlative Justice Scalia told New York magazine in September. He ...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

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Sunday, May 04, 2014

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Springfield, MO, breaks May 4 high temp record with 91 F. Old record: 89, set in 1952 Earliest 100F ever in Wichita KS today.. Tehran...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

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U.S. business inventories rose 0.4 % in January  U.S. federal government runs 193.5 bln USD deficit in February  U.S. initial jobless ...
Sunday, March 02, 2014

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(Bloomberg) The London gold fix, the benchmark used by miners, jewelers and central banks to value the metal, may have been manipulated f...
Sunday, February 16, 2014

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Saturday, February 01, 2014

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(MarketWatch) U.S. stocks end the week and the month with deep losses following a selloff on Friday, which was prompted by disappointing e...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

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U.S. Consumer sentiment declined in January, falling to a reading of 80.4 from 82.5 in December. December U.S. industrial production rose...
Sunday, January 05, 2014

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The S&P 500 ended the year at an all-time high (but not quite  inflation adjusted ) – its largest percentage gain since 1997. DJ Indus...
Sunday, December 15, 2013

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(Reuters) - Investors in U.S.-based funds pulled $6.5 billion out of stock mutual funds in the week ended Wednesday, marking the biggest we...
Sunday, December 08, 2013

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Sunday, November 24, 2013

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Sunday, November 17, 2013

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The Euro pean Commission has exercised historic new EU powers allowing it to revise national budgets for the first time. (Reuters) - Th...
Monday, November 11, 2013

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Sunday, November 03, 2013

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Southern Europe is on a precipice Ambrose Evans-Pritchard  The Chicago purchasing managers index rose to 65.9% in October, the best pe...
Sunday, October 20, 2013

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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(NYT) China has become shrill in its criticism of the fiscal train wreck in the United States, arguing that the answer to a potential gove...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

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Sunday, September 22, 2013

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Obama urged Republican/Tea to stop political brinkmanship on gov't funding and debt limit in order to avert self-inflicted wounds to e...
Sunday, September 08, 2013

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MoM U.S. consumer sentiment declined to 82.1 from July’s 85.1. Chicago PMI rose to 53.0 from 52.3 in July. Consumer spending barely ro...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

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Purchases of new U.S. homes fell 13.4 % in July, the most in more than three year. Consumer confidence in both the euro area and th...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

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Sunday, August 04, 2013

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The US economy added 162,000 jobs in July , slightly below expectations, but the unemployment rate fell to 7.4 %. U.S initial claims for ...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

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The Group of 20 nations pledged on Saturday to put growth before austerity, seeking to revive a global economy. The Group of Twenty (G20) ...
Sunday, July 14, 2013

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Saturday, July 06, 2013

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Markets have overreacted to the likelihood that the U.S. Federal Reserve will taper its quantitative easing policy , or QE, HSBC said in it...