(via The Christian Science Monitor) posted May 17, 2012 at 8:31 am EDT An alarming batch of economic indicators from China in the past 10…
Factories stall worldwide, U.S. jobless claims rise
Reuters – 5 minutes ago
..By Ross Finley and Emily Kaiser
LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Manufacturing activity is contracting across Europe and most of Asia, data showed on Thursday, and a Chinese o…
We’re knee-deep in Q3 earnings season. And for the most part, companies are announcing better-than-expected profits.
But the most important part of this quarterly ritual is what companies are saying about the global economy.
We’ve reviewed the earn…
The world economy may still be in the doldrums, but global wealth continues to grow, hitting an all-time high this year of $231 trillion, according to a new global wealth report from Credit Suisse.
And more than ever, that figure is concentrated at t…
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Commodity Prices Headed for a Huge Drop
By Erik Swarts Sep 30, 2011 2:40 pm
We may be at the back end of a historic super cycle in commodities, and the decline will help businesses and consumers while devastating emerging eco…
Aug. 16, 2011, 12:06 p.m. EDT
Corporate profit outlooks will worsen: survey
But 42% of investors think global recession won’t happen this year
By Dawn Lim, MarketWatch
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) –– Investor sentiment has taken a sharp turn in the …
Avoiding disasters hasn’t worked. At least, not avoiding debt disasters. No matter what tricks the authorities do – monetary, fiscal, or unconventional – the debt is still there. And since all those tricks cost money…it gets bigger and bigge…
400 Analysts and Economists Are Bullish. But Before You Join Them, See This Chart
5/4/2011 5:30:00 PM
Please read these financial news headlines and then take a guess as to when they were published:
IMF predicts an energet…
Gold & Silver Guy Makes His Case & A Rebuttal
$10 Oil Follow Up – The case for Short Term Deflation
Maloney: “MBS are the big problem for the financial sector. MBS only speed up the global transmission of problems through the banking sector. It’s…
A shocking figure came out last week. In the US, fewer new houses were sold last month than in any month since they started keeping records in 1963.
How is it possible? Simple. The houses that would have been sold to today’s able buyers were bui…