Japanese economy hit by ‘double nightmare’

From Timesonline With potentially the most momentous general election for five decades ...

Japan jobless rate hits new high

From the BBC: Japan's jobless rate hit a record 5.7% in July and consumer prices fell at a re...

UBS has no plans to buy back toxic assets from SNB

From Reuters: Swiss bank UBS currently has no plans to buy back toxic assets which were trans...

Swiss Central Bank Sees Deflation Risk

From Expatica.com The Swiss central bank on Tuesday warned that deflation was a bigger risk f...

Bank of Japan’s Shirakawa Urges Policy Makers to Avoid Bubbles

BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa addressed the central bankers reunion in Kansas City with a message o...

Bernanke hit by identity theft. Is that why he signed Tarp in the First Place?

Canadians optimistic about recovery

From The Globe and Mail: The survey conducted between Aug. 6 and 16 found the consumer confid...

Oil Above $72 in seesaw trade

From CNN Money: Oil prices settled more than $1 higher Thursday, reversing directions several...

First it was the US, now France’s IRS Wants to Talk to the Swiss

Danish Central Bank Cuts Benchmark Rate by 10 points

Denmark's central Bank cut its key lending rate by 10 basis points to leave the benchmark rate at 1....

US Economy Has Leveled Out According to Fed’s Lacker

In a speech this afternoon, Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker was quoted as s...

Oil Price weighs Canadian Dollar Trading

From Bloomberg: Canada’s dollar traded near the lowest in a week versus its ...

Commodities Stocks drag Wall Street after Lower Oil Prices

From FT.com Energy producers were especially weak as oil continued to fall from its recent pe...

GBP Depreciates after Consumer Spending and Business Investment Data

From Bloomberg: The British currency also traded near the weakest level since June against the ...

Fed’s Lacker: Unsure Of Impact Of Release Of Data

From CNN Money: Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker on Thursday said he's ...

Is the Fed the only one worried about disclosing borrower data?

A Non Revision of GDP numbers is seen as a positive?

Dr. Doom Warns of “Double-Dip” Recession

You see Nouriel Roubini’s name in the news a great deal lately, and more often than...

Australian Central Bank Holds rate at 3%

Ealier this morning the Reserve Bank of Australia held its benchmark rate unchanged at 3.00%. The de...

US lost 467,000 jobs last month Unemployment now 9.5%

The Department of Labor reported this morning the loss of 467,000 positions well above the forecast ...