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Has Christine Lagarde just made a pre-downgrade announcement to avoid making any waves when the IMF downgrades global growth next week?
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Echoing others before it, a fresh report from Fitch Ratings has lowered its global economic outlook for 2015.
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The Institute for Supply Management has released its September report of the Chicago Business Barometer, and it is ugly.
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Thinkstock U.S. economic output grew by 2.2% in 2014 to $15.77 trillion. Some sectors — such as the manufacturing and mining industries — grew. Others — including agriculture and government —...
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The good news here is that the flash services PMI reading for September is still signaling a stronger growth report in the services economy.
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The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released some slightly better news when it comes to gross domestic product (GDP) in the United States.
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Caterpillar's job cuts of 10,000 workers are a reminder that oil patch and infrastructure companies are in rising trouble.
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ThinkstockInvestors are looking for any clue and any hint that they can get about the economic expansion right now. Is there expansion, or are global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures starting to...
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New orders for durable goods were not all that durable in August. The only good news here is that the drop was not as bad as economists had expected.
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The Caixin Flash China PMI for September fell to 47.0 from 47.3 in August The number is the lowest it has been in 78 months.
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The strength of retail sales in the fourth quarter of each year is a benchmark for how well the U.S. consumer economy is doing.
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Another large independent organization has followed the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in a downgrade of global growth this year.
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ThinkstockWith all the “will they or won’t they” for this week’s decision on interest rates, it has grown rather tiring listening to the endless number of talking heads going on about the...
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The U.S. Federal Reserve has announced its reading on industrial production and capacity utilization for the month of August.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce reported its factory orders reading on Wednesday morning, but this is for the month of July.
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