Arctic sea ice shrinks to lowest level on record: US
AFP - Arctic sea ice shrunk to its lowest extent on record this week, surpassing the previous record set in 2007 and surprising experts studying climate change, a...
View ArticleMario Draghi Gave A Big New Hint About What The ECB Has Up Its Sleeve
European markets ended Monday on a high note, with Italy gaining 1.1%, and Spain reversing losses to add 0.18%. Why the bout of optimism? Mario Draghi has apparently given his clearest signal yet...
View ArticleUS economy adds 96K jobs, rate falls to 8.1 pct.
Friday, September 7, 2012 | Updated: Friday, September 7, 2012 7:53am Comments (0) E-mail Print Tweet Page 1 of 1 WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 96,000 jobs last month, a weak figure that...
View ArticleShrinking labor force still plagues Michigan, report finds
A new Labor Day report from the Michigan League for Human Services shows the state still suffers from a shrinking labor force and high African-American unemployment. Even though the state's jobless...
View ArticleThe Market Is In The Process Of Forcing Spain To Beg For Help
Spanish 2-year borrowing costs have been ticking up for several days now, and are higher again today. Here's a chart, via Bloomberg. From sub-3% borrowing costs to...
View ArticleRates fall at Treasury auction with rates on 6-month bills dropping to...
WASHINGTON — Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Tuesday’s auction with rates on six-month bills dropping to the lowest level since early June. The Treasury Department auctioned $32...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: That Disturbing Consumer Credit Number
That stings: There are signs that the consumer has restarted. For the first time in a awhile, the year-over-year change in the total amount of revolving consumer credit (credit cards) has shrunk on a...
View ArticleBILL GROSS: If I Were An Individual Investor, This Is What I Would Do
In his new note, PIMCO's Bill Gross revisits his widely-panned letter from August about how equities were screwed. This time he takes a more moderate tone, but still insists that equities are not good...
View ArticleAustralia Employment Dips, Jobless Also Down
Australian employment dipped unexpectedly in August even as the jobless rate also surprised by dropping to a three-month low of 5.1 percent, a mixed result that did nothing to alter expectations of...
View ArticleDAVID ZERVOS: Bernanke Is 'Absolutely' Lying About What QE Does To Interest...
A point we've made several times in the past is that Quantitative Easing -- because it's seen as inflationary -- actually causes rates to rise, contra the assumption of money that bond buying by the...
View ArticleIf Morgan Stanley Is Right, Europe Should Be Incredibly Nervous About That...
September 12 is going to be a huge day. For one thing it's the day the next iPhone will probably get revealed. And there's an election in the Netherlands that day. And most importantly, a German court...
View ArticleU.S. unemployment rate falls to 8.1%, but news hardly all good for Obama
Doug Buchanan Managing editor- Business First Email President Barack Obama, fresh off accepting the Democratic Partyâs nomination for re-election, and Republican challenger Mitt Romney each got some...
View ArticleMorgan Stanley Explains The Iron Ore Price Crash That Nobody Can Stop...
Macro watchers and China observers can't stop talking about the collapse in iron ore prices, and what it says about the Chinese economy, and what it means for miners in Australia. Morgan Stanley's...
View ArticleBOFA: Our Wall Street Contrarian Indicator Is Close To Flashing Its Biggest...
Here's the latest update of a chart made famous by BofA's Savita Subramanian. She writes: The Sell Side Indicator, our measure of Wall Street bullishness on stocks, ticked up slightly in August for...
View ArticleIt's Stimulus Season!
Stimulus Season is the title of the latest Global Emerging Market investor note from Morgan Stanley. You can already guess where they're going with it: Risky assets are going higher thanks to the Fed,...
View ArticleNetwork Marketing Platform Announces Free Video Offer After Reports Reveal...
After the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a new report this week, indicating that an estimated 386,000 Americans have left the labor force in August, Network Marketing Blog Sites announced a new...
View ArticleShare of Men in Labor Force at All-Time Low
CATHERINE RAMPELL Dollars to doughnuts. Friday’s jobs report for August was chock full of all sorts of bad news. Among the most distressing: The share of men actively participating in the labor force...
View ArticleWhy The Last 14 Days Will Go Down In History As A Turning Point For The...
Whew. Those were a crazy couple of weeks we just wrapped up. Morgan Stanley's interest rate strategist Matthew Hornbach writes: When the history books are written or market participants look at charts...
View ArticleJobless Rate Flat at 8.3% Even as Payrolls Grow 227,000
The slow melt-up in employment continued during February as the economy added 227,000 new jobs while the unemployment rate held flat at 8.3 percent. Getty Images With warm weather helping to spur...
View ArticleNation adds 96,000 jobs; unemployment rate falls to 8.1 percent
WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added 96,000 jobs last month, a weak figure that could slow any momentum President Barack Obama hoped to gain from his speech to the Democratic National Convention. The...
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