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Germany Faces Political Isolation

One month ago it appeared that Germany held the whip hand in its titanic struggle against those seeking to cure all economic ills with the snake oil of…

Germany’s Mixed Signals

Last week's media headlines focused on how the election results in France and Greece reflected a wave of rising public resistance across Europe to the austerity programs being…

World Market News

Australian Dollar Outlook – 05/21/2012

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollarcontinues in languish in the 0.9800's after the G8meeting…

Global Markets Overview – 05/21/2012

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U.S. STOCK MARKETS

Blue chips extended a streak of…

Economics – New Links for Students from the IMF

Posted on May 20, 2012 by iMFdirect

The IMF’s well written Finance & Development magazine has recently…

Falling Indian Rupee: Finance Minister Says Government Is Trying to Resolve The Issue

Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Sunday expressed concern over the depreciation of the rupee.

Personal Finance

The Great Retail Fail

Sunny days are here again -- or are they?

The latest round of retail same-store sales figures gathered from 18 retailers around the U.S. wasn't good. After months…

How the Dow’s Earnings Season Went

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI  ) has certainly had its share of ups and downs so far in 2012, with a huge performance in the first quarter…

What If Yahoo! Had Bought Facebook?

If you're a sucker for revisionist history, I have three years of financials to throw your way.

Let's take a look at a fictional company's financials from 2009…

Gold & Silver

A reverse Gold ETF and Silver Bullion as wedding gift

By Sreekumar RaghavanThe Marine Drive in Kochi wore a deserted look on a Friday evening. A few people who came to…

United States

Obama vs. Romney

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China

Samsung senses shrinking China demand

Samsung has admitted to concerns over “worrying” weakness in Chinese consumer spending as customer sentiment, damped by government austerity measures, turns against spending on technology products.

Canada

TSX slides amid lower commodities, Facebook stalls after surging in market debut

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market gave up early solid gains to close lower Friday as traders increasingly nervous about the future of the eurozone reduced exposure…

United Kingdom

UK banks are ready for Greek exit, says Bank of England adviser

Michael Cohrs says unfolding eurozone crisis means banks must keep bolstering their strength

Britain's banks are strong enough to withstand any Greek exit from the eurozone but need…

Europe

Cameron brushes off EU referendum calls

David Cameron on Sunday rebuffed those on the Conservative party right who want an in-out referendum on Britain’s EU membership, opening up the possibility that the…

Asia-Pacific

Flash in Japan

If only all advanced countries could grow as fast as Japan. Unfortunately, Japan itself is unlikely to grow as fast as Japan for very much longer.…

Latin America

Brazil stimulus fails to raise growth

Brazil’s economic output shrank in March, defying government stimulus measures and surprising economists who had predicted that Latin America’s biggest economy would begin to recover from…

Middle East

Arab spring needs aid to succeed, says Osborne

George Osborne. the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer, warned on Friday that the push for democracy in Arab spring countries could fail unless the international community speeded…