Why would Saudi Arabia wish good luck to Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh who is facing the wrath of anti-government protesters? Especially when the president is having a tough time trying to contain the number of his defecting military chiefs?
Wall Street investment guru and editor of GameChangers Hilary Kramer has put together a list of 12 stocks which she advised investors to sell immediately. While the names that appeared on the list are big ticket stocks, Kramer justifies her position, saying that investors usually make the mistake of holding on to what used to be hot previously. She says, for example, retail stocks were 'yesterday’s market leaders.'
This is the full text of U.S. President Barack Obama's speech to both UK houses of parliament.
Protests have erupted in Spain in response to the country’s devastatingly poor economy, high unemployment and the government’s draconian austerity measures that affect mostly the middle class.
St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Monday that stripping energy and food costs from inflation measurements may understate inflation. Ignoring energy prices in a price index may systematically understate inflation for many years, he added.
Gold Prices at Tuesday morning's London Fix hit record Euro and Pound Sterling highs - €1078.85 and £942.22 per ounce respectively. The US Dollar ticked lower after a Federal Reserve official suggested monetary policy may remain loose for an extended period.
Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota Governor (2003-2011), made his official candidacy-for-president announcement on Sunday May 22, 2011.
Aren't you at all curious about who's behind this lynching by media scam? This is an all-out, no-holds-barred, steel-cage, take-down. The big boys save that kind of action for the worst offenders, that is, for the insiders who have broken Omerta or wandered off the reservation. Even Bernie Madoff was allowed to stay in his $7 million Park Avenue penthouse.
The Gold Price in Euros shot to a new all-time high of €34,746 per kilogram (€1080 per ounce) - 1% above Friday's close. The Euro price to Buy Gold has risen 16% since this time last year.
Spain's ruling Socialist party has suffered an overwhelming defeat in the local elections on Sunday.
Since the shocking discovery (and subsequent) assassination of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in early May in a compound in Pakistan, rumors have swirled that authorities in Islamabad have been harboring and protecting the world’s most wanted man all these years.
Spaniards continue to protest against unemployment for the seventh day across the country defying a ban on demonstrations before the elections.
There seems to be a broad-based strengthening in the labor market with the growth of payrolls in 42 U.S. states and a decline in unemployment rate in 39 states in April.
History will remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn as a man who put the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the road to decline, and that the new leadership should bring about a fundamental rethink of the fund's economic programs for the European periphery, leading think tank American Enterprise Institute has said.
Protesters in Madrid have camped out in the central square for the fourth consecutive night.
The number of jobs in New Jersey increased by 14,000 during the month of April, the state's Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced Thursday. It was the third consecutive month that the Garden State recorded job growth. The state added 13,400 private-sector jobs and 600 public jobs, while the unemployment rate remained 9.3 percent.
John Lipsky—Acting Managing Director, International Monetary Fund delivered the following speech at Annual Meeting of the Bretton Woods Committee on May 19, 2011.
Minutes from the last FOMC meeting held April 26-27, 2011.
Over the past several decades, some very alarming long-term economic trends have developed that are absolutely destroying the economy. Here are 50 hard facts and statistics that show the negative trends in several areas of the economy. If dramatic changes are not made soon, a complete and total economic collapse becomes a possibility
The state of Kansas violated a Jehovah's Witness' constitutional right to exercise her religious faith when it denied her request for an out-of-state liver transplant, a state appeals court ruled.
Seventy out of 278 parks will be closed down to save money for California State, Gov. Jerry Brown's administration announced on Friday.
Over the past decade, the number of middle class jobs has fallen by about ten percent. There is a reason for this. America is becoming poorer. The economic pie is shrinking. When we ship 40 to 50 billion dollars into the hands of foreigners every single month, that means that there is a lot less wealth for all of us to divide up.
