global economy

The risk faced by those who are analyzing macro trends is sounding like a broken record. For those younger readers who have no idea what that means, imagine an MP3 song that will stick on and endlessly repeat a random segment of the song you are listening to until you give your device a sharp knock...

The US economy seems to have recovered from the brink of a collapse. Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner shared his views on the US economy at the G20 conference. Geithner believes that all of the countries in the G20 need to work together to ensure that the economy does not fall into another...

South Korea's central bank kept its key interest rate at 2 percent. The Bank of Korea avoided raising the discount rate due to concerns about slowing Korea's economic recovery. The decision to keep rates low was applauded by economists worldwide. Central banks in the United States and Europe have...

Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) and Deere & Co. (DE) were the ringleaders of the rally from the construction and farming machinery rally on Monday... the day's biggest gainers with a market-weighted bullish move of 3.5%. The pop was a pre-emptive buy in front of what was supposed to be good news from...