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thinkstockIt is really hard to get excited about anything in Greece and the peripheral nations. That has been the mantra for years now, even before the U.S. recession. But maybe all bad things can...
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Wikimedia CommonsBitcoin has been facing its own identity crisis of late, and its future is back to looking very uncertain. After MtGox suspended withdrawals and after widespread reports of Bitcoin...
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At the Singapore Airshow, Airbus echoed the Boeing forecast that new aircraft deliveries to the Asia-Pacific region will drive the industry for the next 20 years. But Boeing's announced build rate...
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Boeing estimates that Asia Pacific airlines will require 12,280 new plans over the next 20 years, 36% of all global deliveries. The company estimates that the Asia Pacific fleet will nearly triple to...
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ThinkstockIn its monthly report on food prices, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Thursday that its food price index fell nearly 3 points from December to...
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Courtesy Maersk LineThe U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday morning that the U.S. trade deficit for December 2013 totaled $38.7 billion, up from $34.6 billion in...
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A Boeing 787 belonging to Air India on a flight from Sydney to New Delhi made an emergency landing in Kuala Lumpur after all three of the plane's flight management computer screens went blank.
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ThinkstockStandard & Poor’s Rating Services has just turned Puerto Rico into the equivalent of on of the PIIGS over credit ratings. Well, maybe Puerto Rico did it with poor finances and S&P...
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down more than 140 points after a dismal ISM manufacturing report on Monday. It is now down more than 1,000 points from its high.
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ThinkstockChinese New Year is starting, and the good news — and hard to believe news — is that this could help to fend off the waves of emerging market madness we have been seeing of late. That...
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CIA World FactbookThe Turkish Central Bank is not exactly the most widely followed central bank in the world. That may be true 364 days of this year, but on Tuesday all eyes of emerging market...
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ThinkstockCitigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is proof that breaking up a giant empire is not exactly easy to do. Sandy Weill built the empire up into a global financial supermarket, and even after the unit...
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ThinkstockWhen Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan said to avoid emerging markets in 2014, many investors and market participants thought that the firms were merely sticking to a 2013 trend for too long....
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Caterpillar continues to struggle in its sales of heavy equipment. About the only good news to come out of its its fourth-quarter sales trends report is that the rate of decline in most instances was...
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Courtesy BlackBerryIt is always interesting to see what happens on ADR trading in the home markets when U.S. stock markets are closed. Martin Luther King Day brings a closure of the U.S. markets, but...
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