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You have heard over and over that more and more regulation is hurting the banking and finance sector, but what…
The Conference Board has released its Leading Economic Indicators. The report, much of which is known before the release, managed…
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve’s August Business Outlook Survey was released this morning, and the survey’s diffusion index rose to -7.1…
New York State manufacturers have faced deteriorating business and have scaled back expectations for the second half of 2012, according…
The Labor Department has reported the level of wholesale inflation measured by the Producer Price Index. The reading for the…
We have already seen some data on inventories, gross domestic product and the trade deficit. Now we are seeing the…
The report on wholesale trade in the month of June is now out, but we have already seen some of…
It almost seems too good to be true, but the U.S. trade balance for the month of June came in…
More decent news came out of the Labor Department this Thursday as the weekly jobless claims totaled 361,000 for the…
Media reports regularly rank the country’s states in terms of their current economic situation, health, jobs and even water quality.…
In videotaped remarks for a meeting of international economists this morning, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke argued that economic measurement…
Will the United States be a country in which many people have low-paid jobs for more than another generation? Or…
The Institute For Supply Management is out with its July reading on the services sector. The ISM’s nonmanufacturing report came…
The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers’ index (PMI) released today indicated that the service sector in the United Kingdom grew at its…
Retail sales in the eurozone came in better than expected, but growth fell off sharply from the previous year, as…
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