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JIM O’NEILL: Don’t Worry About Friday’s ‘Not Quite So Good’ US Trade Report

Sam Ro | Mar. 12, 2012, 1:44 AM | 259 | On Friday, the Census Bureau told us that the U.S. trade deficit swelled to $52.6 billion in January, from $48.8 billion in December.  Economists were looking for the deficit to widen to $49.0 billion.Jim O’Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, notes that while [...] [...]

REPORT: George Soros Is Giving A Lot Of Credit To American Apparel (APP)

Sam Ro | Mar. 12, 2012, 1:10 AM | 635 | The debt-laden, controversial, American-made clothing chain reportedly has a new financial backer to bail it out: George Soros. From the New York Post’s James Covert:The billionaire octogenarian — who, like American Apparel’s controversial CEO Dov Charney, has lately been entangled in lawsuits with young, [...] [...]

February jobs report: Unemployment holds amid solid hiring

Click on the chart to see more February jobs data.NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hiring remained strong in February, fueling optimism about the recovery.Employers added 227,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department reported Friday. While that’s a pinch slower than in January, hiring was still better than economists had expected. Before Obama even took office, America [...] [...]

Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion

Personalized search? Both Google and Bing will tell you that it provides better results. But two-thirds say they don’t care. They view personalized search as a “bad thing,” a new survey finds. Nearly three-quarters also view gathering data to personalize results to be a privacy invasion.The findings come out of a survey from the Pew Internet & American [...] [...]

Glencore bidding for grain handler Viterra – report

Swiss commodities trader Glencore’s logo is seen in front of its headquarters in Baar, near Zurich, February 6, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Romina Amato/FilesREUTERS – Commodities and mining giant Glencore has made a 3.5 billion pound (US$5.5 billion) approach for Canada’s biggest grain handler Viterra, Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper said on its website on Saturday.The London-based paper [...] [...]

Pew Report: 65% View Personalized Search As Bad; 73% See It As Privacy Invasion

Personalized search? Both Google and Bing will tell you that it provides better results. But two-thirds say they don’t care. They view personalized search as a “bad thing,” a new survey finds. Nearly three-quarters also view gathering data to personalize results to be a privacy invasion.The findings come out of a survey from the Pew Internet & American [...] [...]

USDCAD: Trading Canada’s GDP Report

Economic activity expected to expand at slower pace in the fourth quarter, and the protracted recovery may spur a bearish outlook for the Canadian dollar as it dampens the prospects for higher interest rates. Trading the News: Canada GDP What’s Expected: Time of release: 03/02/2012 13:30 GMT, 8:30 EST Primary Pair Impact: USDCAD Expected: 1.8% [...] [...]

Feb 16: Better Than Expected Jobless Claims Report

S&P at 9-Month Sublime on Husbandry, Greek Sale HopesReuters The S&P 500 hit its highest level in nine months on Thursday as the U.S. economy showed further signs of recovery … Social BookmarkingCheck more:GBP/USD: Trading the U.K. Jobless Claims ReportJobless claims plunge to 348,000Jobless claims plunge to nearly four-year lowEconomic Report: Applications for jobless benefits declineFinancial [...] [...]

USD/CAD: Trading Canada’s 3Q GDP Report

The 3Q GDP hearsay is prospective to instill a arbitrary exposure for Canada as vend entrants deem to descry a echo in the tower velocity, besides the evolution could inculcate a bullish vista for the Canadian dollar as the efficient rally concentrates walk. Trading the Recents: Canada GDP What’s Prospective: Stretch of remit: 11/30/2011 13:30 [...] [...]

Federal Reserve household credit report: Consumers shed debt

Customer borrowing fell somewhat in the third sector as Americans continued to lean-to their arrears millstones in the clad of a struggling providence. Domestic sin totaled $11.66 trillion in the trinity months ending in September, subordinate $60 billion from the previous sector, according to a fame released Monday by the Federal Stock Coast of Fresh [...] [...]

Black Friday sales hit record, says report

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Preliminary reports for Black Friday indicate that retailers may have seen their strongest sales ever during the all-important kick-off to the holiday shopping season.Retail sales on Black Friday climbed 6.6% this year to an estimated $11.4 billion, according to ShopperTrak, which tracks foot traffic at malls and stores. Last year, sales [...] [...]

EUR/USD: Trading the 3Q German GDP Report

Europe’s largest economy is expected to expand at a faster pace in the third-quarter, and the development may instill a bullish outlook for the single currency as growth prospects improve. Trading the News: German GDP What’s Expected: Time of release: 11/15/2011 7:00 GMT, 2:00 EST Primary Pair Impact: EURUSD Expected: 0.5% Previous: 0.1% DailyFX Forecast: [...] [...]

EUR/USD: Trading the 3Q German GDP Report

Europe’s largest economy is expected to expand at a faster pace in the third-quarter, and the development may instill a bullish outlook for the single currency as growth prospects improve. Trading the News: German GDP What’s Expected: Time of release: 11/15/2011 7:00 GMT, 2:00 EST Primary Pair Impact: EURUSD Expected: 0.5% Previous: 0.1% DailyFX Forecast: [...] [...]

EUR/USD: Trading the 3Q German GDP Report

Europe’s largest economy is expected to expand at a faster pace in the third-quarter, and the development may instill a bullish outlook for the single currency as growth prospects improve. Trading the News: German GDP What’s Expected: Time of release: 11/15/2011 7:00 GMT, 2:00 EST Primary Pair Impact: EURUSD Expected: 0.5% Previous: 0.1% DailyFX Forecast: [...] [...]

EUR/USD: Trading the 3Q German GDP Report

Europe’s largest economy is expected to expand at a faster pace in the third-quarter, and the development may instill a bullish outlook for the single currency as growth prospects improve. Trading the News: German GDP What’s Expected: Time of release: 11/15/2011 7:00 GMT, 2:00 EST Primary Pair Impact: EURUSD Expected: 0.5% Previous: 0.1% DailyFX Forecast: [...] [...]

GBP/USD: Trading the U.K. Jobless Claims Report

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Economic Report: U.S. home prices up for fourth month: Case-Shiller

By Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. home prices in July rose for the fourth straight month, according to data released Tuesday, helped by seasonal factors as well as tentative if halting signs of improvement in housing demand. The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 0.9% compared to June, to narrow the year-on-year decline [...] [...]

Economic Report: Consumer confidence ticks higher

By Ruth Mantell, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — As expectations slightly gained, consumer confidence ticked higher in September while remaining at low levels, the Conference Board reported Tuesday. The nonprofit organization said its consumer-confidence index rose to 45.4 in September from 45.2 in August, when it had plunged on worries about jobs and the U.S. debt, [...] [...]

ANALYSIS – BP oil spill report may prompt over $30 bln pay-out

A BP (British Petroleum) logo is seen at a petrol station in central London February 3, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Toby Melville/FilesBy Tom BerginLONDON | Fri Sep 16, 2011 4:46pm IST LONDON (Reuters) – Findings of the second major investigation by the U.S. government into the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, may press BP into putting [...] [...]

August jobs report: Hiring grinds to a halt

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — So much for getting Labor Day weekend off to a good start. The economy added no jobs in August, the Labor Department said Friday. Zero, zilch, nada.Meanwhile, the unemployment rate remained at 9.1%.“We expected a weak report, and what we got was even weaker,” said Patrick O’Keefe, director of economic research [...] [...]

Job report turns up heat on Fed to take action

By Greg Robb, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The grim August job report raises pressure on the Federal Reserve to take action to stimulate the economy, but it remains unclear what the move would be, analysts said Friday. “We’re basically saying we see a fairly high chance of easing in September,” said Michael Hanson, senior economist [...] [...]

Fed asks BofA to list contingency plan: report

{“s” : “bac”,”k” : “a00,a50,b00,b60,c10,g00,h00,l10,p20,t10,v00″,”o” : “”,”j” : “”} On Friday September 2, 2011, 4:12 am EDT (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve has asked Bank of America Corp to show what measures it could take if business conditions worsen, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the situation.BofA executives recently responded to the [...] [...]

Stocks hammered by dismal jobs report

Click the chart for more stock market data.NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Stocks remained sharply lower Friday afternoon, after a government report showing no job growth in August stoked fears that the U.S. may be headed into another recession.With less than three hours remaining in the trading day, the Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) was down [...] [...]

Economic Report: Hiring grinds to halt in August, U.S. data show

By Greg Robb, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The U.S. economy did not add any jobs in August, a weak performance that casts a cloud over the sputtering recovery, economic data showed Friday. Nonfarm payrolls were unchanged in August, lower than the 53,000 gain expected by economists surveyed by MarketWatch and the weakest performance in nonfarm [...] [...]

The Fed: Job report turns up heat on Fed to take action

By Greg Robb, MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The grim August job report raises pressure on the Federal Reserve to take action to stimulate the economy, but it remains unclear what the move would be, analysts said Friday. “We’re basically saying we see a fairly high chance of easing in September,” said Michael Hanson, senior economist [...] [...]

Forex Magnates Retail Forex Industry Report Q1 2011

Forex Magnates is the premier source of forex industry news. Forex Magnates quarterly report is your ABC guide to retail forex including invaluable industry overview and forecast, news, broker information and forex yellow pages of software providers. Check it out! Social BookmarkingCheck more:Forex Magnates Retail Forex Industry Report Q1 2011JIM O’NEILL: Don’t Worry About Friday’s [...] [...]

Economic Report: Applications for jobless benefits decline

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits fell below 400,000 last week for the first time since early April, as jobless claims continued on a slow downward trajectory. Initial claims dropped by 7,000 to a seasonally adjusted 395,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. Initial claims from two weeks ago were [...] [...]

Forex Magnates Retail Forex Industry Report Q1 2011

Forex Magnates is the premier source of forex industry news. Forex Magnates quarterly report is your ABC guide to retail forex including invaluable industry overview and forecast, news, broker information and forex yellow pages of software providers. Check it out! Social BookmarkingCheck more:Forex Magnates Retail Forex Industry Report Q1 2011JIM O’NEILL: Don’t Worry About Friday’s [...] [...]