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...
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 ...
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 ...
OECD and BOJ Member push for Bond Purchases
Today the OECD suggested that  the Bank of Japan should maintain its policy of buying corpor...
Polish Central Bank Cuts rate by 25bps to 3.50%
The Central Bank of Poland reduced rates today by 25 basis points in line with analyst's forescast. ...
Swiss Central Bank leaves rates unchanged
The SNB kept the benchmark interest rate target at 0.25% today. Jean-Pierre Roth, president of the...
Norway’s Central Bank to Twitter Rate Decision
The Norges Bank announced its benchmark interest rate decision via twitter this Wednesday. The Norw...
Bank of Japan leaves interest rates unchanged
The statement by the Japanese Central Bank was received as a sign of improving given its prior comme...