The crisis in Europe has grown worse. The economy is slowing in China. Job growth in the United States was a puny 69,000. And there is little willingness for governments to compromise. full story ![]()

Chicago’s economic competitiveness is growing on the world stage, and it will ascend to one of the 10 top cities in the world by 2025, according to an analysis by the Economist.
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A former deputy editor of the News of the World suffered "a terrible ordeal" while he was left on police bail for nearly two years, his solicitor has said.
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Good(ish) news! Headline GDP since 2007 may get revised up a bit this July. However, it will (likely) be tied to GDP accounting changes by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), not an update to actual economic data.
forbes.com (1 month and 25 days ago)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senator who has criticized Wall Street is asking federal regulators and law enforcement officials whether they have the economic analysis to back up their routine practice of letting big banks settle cases without admitting guilt instead of taking them to trial.
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A former News of the World executive will not face charges over the phone hacking scandal after spending almost two years on police bail.
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After nearly six years of crisis, the bar for good economic news has sunk so low that any sign of deceleration in the tailspin has become cause for celebration.
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After looking ready to rocket past milestone levels just a few weeks ago, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index is coming out of its first negative week of 2013.
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Many traders of CFDs and FX choose to ignore the whispers of major news stories and economic events when trading the financial markets.
japancorp.net (4 months and 1 day ago)
For the last four years, the world has traded largely based on hope of more intervention from Central Banks. That is the single driving factor of the markets. Good news was good news (it’s a recovery!) but bad news was even better (the Fed will have to print more money!) as far as stocks were concerned. However, against this backdrop several issues began to develop. The...
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