Euro Higher Than Ever Against Dollar
PARIS -- Financial stocks were pushed lower Tuesday in Asia and Europe and the euro hit a record against the dollar as new concerns about the global f...
PARIS -- Financial stocks were pushed lower Tuesday in Asia and Europe and the euro hit a record against the dollar as new concerns about the global f...
Max Keiser | Posted 07.05.2008 | Business
I was on France24 Friday talking about oil, the dollar, and gold. part 2 Key to the rise in oil and gold prices is what I call 'monetary extre...
Michael Pento | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business
Because the dollar has fallen 40% in the last six years, McDonalds may have to reduce quality, raise prices or both in their famed Dollar Menu.
MSNBC | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business
No, that's not a mirage. The economy is faltering, the dollar is getting clobbered by the euro, and traveling to the far reaches of luxury is costlier...
Danny Schechter | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics
Paulson avoided a straight answer with a flurry of "uh, uh, uh," halting phrases and contradictory assertions.
Bloomberg | Posted 05.04.2008 | Business
Futures traders are betting for the first time since December 2005 that the dollar will gain against the euro. The difference in the number of wagers...
Michael Pento | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business
Will the downward pressure in commodities continue and should investors expect the end of this interest rate toboggan ride?
AP | MATT MOORE | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — The euro roared to another record high Tuesday, crossing $1.60 for the first time ever after a pair of European Central Bank governor...
Max Keiser | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
If you want to understand why the US dollar is doomed and what drives current Fed policy, keep in mind Hitchcock's Psycho, but with financial derivatives instead of carving knifes.
Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business
If Soros is right and foreigners lose confidence in the U.S. economy, they will want their money back, the dollar will fall, and foreign investments will tumble.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
Dear Mr. Bernanke... Could you lower the interest rates some more? We'd like there to be more money in the system so we can borrow it.
Chris Weigant | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
In the near future, China will eclipse the Middle East and terrorism to be our number one foreign policy challenge. Yet neither Obama nor Clinton are calling for any real change in our China policy.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business
The central problems started with the "supply-side revolution," and the policy of borrowing instead of growing is finally catching up with the great debtor that is the US.
New York Times | Vikas Bajaj | Posted 03.14.2008 | Business
Almost everything seems to be going wrong for the American economy at once. People are buying less, but most things are costing more. Mortgage rates a...
AP | MATT MOORE and YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 03.13.2008 | Business
FRANKFURT, Germany — Widespread concern about the outlook for the U.S. economy pushed the euro to a new record and the yen to 12-year highs agai...
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 03.12.2008 | Business
Are traditional assumptions about the connection between growth and proactive interest rate cuts still valid if monetary policy fails?
CNN/Money | David Ellis | Posted 03.12.2008 | Business
Concerns about the weak dollar are mounting. But even as the greenback sinks to new lows against the euro and other global currencies, some experts sa...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.07.2008 | Business
The New York Times article informs us that we, and our dollar, are primarily to blame for the current vertiginous oil prices.
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business
Financial firms have so far announced losses totaling around $160 billion, and rhere is more bad news to come and central bankers know it.
Robert Weissman | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business
The article emphasizes that the success of U.S.-based multinationals is not doing much to help the U.S. economy, by the measures that matter most.
Martin Varsavsky | Posted 03.01.2008 | Business
If trends continue the talk will not be about petrodollars anymore but about peso dollars and how the US joined the rest of Latin America as a nation unable to rise above its financial troubles.
Financial Times | Krishna Guha | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business
The dollar fell to a fresh record low against the euro on Wednesday as Ben Bernanke signalled that the Federal Reserve is likely to cut interest rates...
AP | MATT MOORE | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business
BERLIN — The euro climbed to a record high of $1.5057 in early European trading on Wednesday as sentiment increased that the U.S. Federal Reserv...
Washington Post | Robin Shulman | Posted 02.24.2008 | Business
"Euros Only" reads a handmade sign in Billy's Antiques & Props on East Houston Street in Manhattan. But that's really just an attention grabber. A...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
OK, here we go with Part 2 of my annual McLaughlin Awards. Last week's column covered the first half of these awards. Unfortunately (as of this writi...
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New York Times | David Jolly | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business