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The Economy is On the Ropes and Going Down
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 2:17pm | 3336The 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...
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US Is Focused On Keeping Recovery On Track
Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 2:35am | 163The 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...
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Korean Central Bank Keeps Rate At 2 Percent
Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 3:21am | 120South 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...
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Large Cap Machinery Jumps, But Small Cap Machinery Offers the Real Value
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 1:42am | 255Caterpillar 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...
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Baltic Dry Index
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 1:52pm | 361he Baltic Dry Index (a) is composed of three sub-indices : the BCI (Capesize index), BPI (Panamax index) and the BSI (Supramax index). The major portion of the BDI is the Baltic Capesize Index . These vessels with cargo capacity of 100,000 to 400,000 DWT account for 62% of the world's dry...