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Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index Collapses: Lowest Production Reading in 6 Years, Orders Contract 7th Month, New Orders 5th Month Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index Plunges Below Any Economist’s Estimate Fed manufacturing surveys remain weak at best.
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Please consider PP Suffers Heavy Regional Losses . Spain’s ruling Popular party suffered heavy losses in Sunday’s string of regional and local elections, as two upstart movements made dramatic gains at the expense of the country’s established parties. The PP still emerged as the biggest party in nine of the 13 regional contests, but its ability to head governments at both the regional and local level was severely curtailed.
The Telegraph reports Greece to Miss IMF payments Amid Fears of ‘Catastrophic’ Eurozone Rupture . Finance minister [Yanis Varoufakis] said that the Syriza-led Greek government has now “made enormous strides at reaching a dealâ€, and that it is now up to the ECB, IMF and EU “to do their bit†and “meet us one-quarter of the wayâ€. One possible alternative if talks do not progress is that Greece would leave the common currency and return to the drachma.
Those living in or near Chicago have the opportunity to hear Senator Rand Paul in a discussion about how to transform Chicago, the state of Illinois and the U.S.
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Another US Foreign Policy Success: Isis Controls Half of Syria after Palmyra Seizure Congratulations are in order for team Bush and team Obama for another stunning US foreign policy success: Isis Controls Half of Syria after Palmyra Seizure . Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) have seized the Syrian city of Palmyra, home to a Unesco world heritage site, putting nearly half of Syrian territory in the jihadi group’s hands and sparking fears that treasured antiquities may be destroyed. Isis announced it had “complete control†of the city on Thursday, and state television said President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had withdrawn from the city, which is known to most Syrians by its Arabic name Tadmur
Economists overestimated existing home sales today, rounding out another impressive day of overoptimism. New home sales came in at a seasonally adjusted 5.04 million annualized rate