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Continued here: Japan Services PMI Shows Sharp Decline in New Orders; Global New Export Orders Have Steepest Drop Since April…
Follow this link: Eurozone New Business Sinks at Fastest Rate in 3 Years; Germany Composite PMI at 37-Month Low; Ass-Backwards…
Read more here: Preposterous Falsehoods From Gary North Regarding the Inflation/Deflation Debate
Headline Jobs +163,000, But Household Survey Shows -195,000 Jobs; Unemployment +.1 to 8.3% ADP got the headline job number correct, I certainly didn’t. However, one look beneath the surface shows this was actually an anemic jobs report
CNN Money reports Chinese buying of U.S. business at record pace Chinese direct investment in the United States could hit a record high in 2012, according to a new research report released Wednesday
View article: US Factory Orders "Unexpectedly" Decline; US Car Sales "Unexpectedly" Decline; Expect the Unexpected
Here are some snips from ECB President Draghi Statement to Press Conference Based on our regular economic and monetary analyses, we decided to keep the key ECB interest rates unchanged, following the decrease of 25 basis points in July. As we said a month ago, inflation should decline further in the course of 2012 and be below 2% again in 2013. Exceptionally high risk premia are observed in government bond prices in several countries and financial fragmentation hinders the effective working of monetary policy.
100,000 Workers in Spain Will Not be Paid Because Regional Government of Catalona is Broke The crisis in Spanish regional governments continues to escalate. El Pais reports Catalona Will Not Pay Hospitals or Private Centers and 100,000 workers are affected.
Link: Eurozone Retail Sales Sink 9th Month; 17th Month of Contraction in Italy; Margins Collapse in France; Germany Barely Above…
Foreigners Dump Nearly €80 Billion in Spanish Debt; Haircuts Come After More Dumping Through the first half of the year, foreigners reduced Spanish debt by Nearly €80 Billion as banks in Spain gobbled up more of the toxic garbage. Foreign investment in Spanish public debt has decreased by 7 €78.168 billion in the first six months of the year, standing at €203.271 billion euros, compared to €281.439 billion which reached the end of 2011. This is a break of 27.7% over last year