Iceland to Pay Back Icesave Cash
A sore issue with the UK and Netherlands governments seems to have been resolved as the Icelandic Pa...
Canada Plans First U.S.-Dollar Global Bond in Decade
Canada plans to sell as much as $3 billion of U.S.-dollar bonds worldwide in “th...
Oil up above $73; barrier at $75
Reuters Oil rose above $73 a barrel on Friday, lifted by slightly better GDP and jobs data ou...
Boost for UK’s economic growth prospects
Timesonline: Britain’s economy shrank by 0.7 per cent in the second quarter,...
German govt focused on Magna’s Opel bid
Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government is committed to its negotiating ...
Japanese economy hit by ‘double nightmare’
From Timesonline With potentially the most momentous general election for five decades ...
Japan jobless rate hits new high
From the BBC: Japan's jobless rate hit a record 5.7% in July and consumer prices fell at a re...
UBS has no plans to buy back toxic assets from SNB
From Reuters: Swiss bank UBS currently has no plans to buy back toxic assets which were trans...
Swiss Central Bank Sees Deflation Risk
From Expatica.com The Swiss central bank on Tuesday warned that deflation was a bigger risk f...
Bank of Japan’s Shirakawa Urges Policy Makers to Avoid Bubbles
BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa addressed the central bankers reunion in Kansas City with a message o...
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...