Traders Fear A Strengthening Economy: Low Rates And Weak Dollar Have Helped Fuel Rally
NEW YORK — Be careful what you wish for. Investors have been hoping for signs that the economy is strong enough to justify continuing Wall Stre...
NEW YORK — Be careful what you wish for. Investors have been hoping for signs that the economy is strong enough to justify continuing Wall Stre...
AP | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
GENEVA — China rejected Monday the charge that it was keeping the yuan artificially low against the dollar, but rather blamed another "major economy...
AP | TALI ARBEL | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The dollar dropped Friday after the government said the trade deficit widened in September, while the 16-nation eurozone officially e...
nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York
French and Italian could be heard throughout Christie's salesroom Tuesday night as the fall auction season began unsteadily: While there were some str...
Zachary Karabell | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
With China now accounting for nearly $1 trillion of American debt, the U.S. can't simply insist that it do something about its currency and expect action. Geithner has been right in not publicly calling out China.
Mike Elk | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
What is "free trade"? What is "fair trade"? "Weak dollar" policy? "Strong dollar" policy? Most people don't know so conservatives can easily come in and label something as fair trade that isn't necessarily good for anyone.
Garrett Johnson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
The dollar will not be allowed to collapse. Instead its decline will be managed. This will include violent corrections that will savage any dollar bear who is trying to make a quick buck.
Diane Francis | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
The bilateral talks, or G-2, between the U.S. and China have resulted in little substantive progress. This is because there is a continuing, inexplicable failure on the part of the U.S. with other countries to pressure China to curb its currency manipulation.
David Calleo | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
The general trend toward a more plural dispensation of power, together with our own progressive loss of geopolitical and financial leverage, means a decline in our relative strength.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
The precious metal, many gold traders gripe, is not getting the respect it deserves. A surge to new highs is just around the corner.
Michael Pento | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business
As long as we continue to substitute spurious growth models for genuine growth policies we will continue to lose global power and influence.
AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 04.19.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — A weakened dollar and evidence that OPEC has significantly slowed production sent oil prices soaring to new highs for the year Thursd...
James Freedman | Posted 01.04.2009 | World
World Editorial Roundup for December 4, 2008.
AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business
Slashing computer prices helped Dell Inc. boost sales in its fiscal second quarter, but the No. 2 PC maker's bottom line took a hit when efforts to cu...
AFP | Posted 09.24.2008 | Business
The weakened US dollar has fallen out of favor with organized crime groups to pay for drug shipments or to settle scores, a Canadian government report...
TIME | Arj J. Officer and Garret J. Hayes | Posted 09.22.2008 | Business
Is it possible that oil prices are rigged? You bet. Here's how: Just how would you raise prices if you were an oil supplier? Controlling the supply -...
Epicenter | Betsy Schiffman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
In good times and in bad, sin sells; booze, tobacco and sex have all weathered countless economic storms over the centuries. This recession is a litt...
Max Keiser | Posted 07.27.2008 | Business
Starbucks is the first, but not the last example of how a falling dollar will make most items that Americans over consume too expensive for Americans to buy with their crumbling currency.
Dave Burdick | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business
"Hey, Canada! You thought that pipeline was worth seven billion dollars? Ha! Yeah, where we're from, that's a $6.98 billion pipeline!" And then I'd smugly shine an apple on my lapel.
Posted 07.25.2008 | Business
Reports on inflation showed big price increases at the consumer level and the wholesale level for June, driven by higher energy and food costs. Here ...
AP | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The nation's banking system is "absolutely safe" and Americans' insured deposits in banks protected, the head of the Federal Deposi...
Vince Farrell | Posted 07.05.2008 | Business
Inflation is the cruelest form of taxation. It eats away at buying power and once uncorked, it's very hard to contain.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street sank Wednesday for the second straight day on renewed concerns about the financial sector and FedEx Corp.'s warning that ...
AP | JOHN WILEN | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Crude oil futures swung wildly on Monday, rising to a record and then tumbling as investors wrestled with whether they should put sto...
Reuters | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is boosting its European presence with plans to license 150 new locations in Br...
AP | STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business