Mike Obel

Rising demand for wheat and corn have inflated the price of U.S. farmland used to grow those two grains.

U.S. consumer sentiment will also be in focus this week.

The May jobs report suggests the economy is stronger than it was nine months ago when the Fed launched its third round of monetary easing.

U.S employers created more jobs than nearly all Wall Street analysts had expected, a key signal the economy is in recovery mode.

Brazil's sovereign debt may be downgraded in the next 2 years on concern about government spending and weak economic growth.

PepsiCo is thirsty for the revenue that would come from SodaStream International, whose U.S. sales have doubled since 2012.

U.S. companies created 135,000 jobs last month, missing analysts' expectations, which ranged from 157,000 to 165,000.

The gray eminence of the world's biggest furniture retailer will not disappear; he'll remain a senior adviser.

It's Beijing vs. Brussels as China launches probe of European Union wine subsidies. Is it paybacks for tariffs on solar panels?

"Give me your ailing investors, your huddled money managers yearning for success ..."

American factories posted a steady-as-she-goes performance in May -- modest but still better than their European counterparts.

Here's what qualifies as good news about European manufacturing: It's not shrinking as fast as it had been for the past 22 months.

The prospect that the U.S. central bank will turn off its monetary spigot hangs like a specter over this week’s economic reports.

The damage to U.S. household balance sheets has fallen disproportionately on minorities and the uneducated.

Analysts said the revised GDP stat is better than it appears: The 2.4% gain occurred despite a 4.9% plunge in government spending.

The 60-year-old war hero and former head of U.S. intelligence is going from "doing good" to "doing well."

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan urges repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. companies, if the tax on those earnings is cut from its current 35%.

Smithfield Foods appears to have succumbed to activist shareholder pressure to return more value to investors.

Liberty Reserve allegedly facilitated the transnational movement of large sums obtained by criminal activities.

Data on manufacturing in Germany, France and the rest of the euro zone will cast light on its record-long recession.

Could the U.S. housing recovery be starting to fade?

Question: How can you tell when the stock market sets a record high? Answer: When your watch says it's 4 pm.

The federal budget deficit has begun what the CBO thinks will be three years of contraction. After that, deficits will resume growing.

It’s been almost 30 years since American journalists coined the phrase “sleaze factor” to describe President Richard Nixon’s administration. It was a richly deserved riposte. Since then, the phrase has fallen into disuse, but a series of scandals in President Barack Obama’s administration suggest it may be time to dust it off.The latest whiff of Obama administration sleaze comes from the Justice Department, which has been collecting telephone records of Associated Press reporters and editors. The White House hasn’t deigned to explain what looks to the rest of the world like contempt for the Fourth Amendment.

Economic reports this week may cast light on how long the current U.S. and Japanese stock-market rallies might last.

The bank also maintained its purchase of 375 billion pounds ($584 billion) of debt after the UK narrowly avoided a triple-dip recession.

U.S. stocks set more records Tuesday, as a four-year long bull market stampedes into a fifth year.

U.S. and German stock market indexes set records on an array of encouraging reports and central bank actions.

Debt-burdened country finds investors willing to loan it 3 billion euros, despite the country's diminished credit ratings.