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Japan: Recession
Japan has entered its second recession in three years, its fourth in the last six years and its fifth of the 21st century.
Best Public High Schools In The U.S.
Niche has ranked 14,431 U.S. high schools for overall quality based on student and parent opinion surveys.
Japan Shocker: QE On Steroids
In a surprise move the Bank of Japan has increased its already aggressive asset purchase program by 15-30% over the previous monthly purchases of ¥60-70 trillion annually to a new total of ¥80 trillion ($724 million).
Japan: Factory Output Increases
Industrial production (IP) in Japan rose by 2.7% (month-over-month) in September, reversing a 1.9% decline in August and significantly better than an expected gain of 2.2%.
Japan: Surprise Jump In Retail Sales
Japanese retail sales increased in September by 2.3% year-over-year, much above the expected 0.8%. It was the third month of positive retail sales growth after three months of negative growth followed the 01 April consumption tax increase from 5% to 8%.
Sanctions Are Not The Biggest Economic Threat For Russia
Saudi Arabia has made a decision that is both tactical and strategic: In the face of falling oil prices they have decided not to cut production.
Japan: Trade Defict Refuses To Shrink
The devalued yen was supposed to make Japan's exports grow sufficiently to more than ​offset increased cost of imports. The trade deficit was supposed to decrease.
China: GDP Keeps Slowing But Very Gradually
China had the slowest GDP growth since the Great Repression (Q1 2009) in the third quarter according to the official data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China today (21 October 2014).
China : Succumbing To Global Deflation?
China is now having the problem of many of the world's most advanced economies: Consistently failing to reach modest consumer inflation targets.
China: Exports, Imports Rise More Than Expected
China continued to report a large trade surplus, amounting to $31 billion in September. This was smaller than the expected $41 billion which had been predicated on a smaller import total.
China: PMI Keeps Head Above Water September 2014
he Flash HSBC Manufacturing PMI (Purchasing Managers' Index) edged up slightly from the 50.2 final reading for August.
Class Action Settlement For Platinum And Palladium Market Manipulation
Some documents about the proposed class action settlement for spot market traders in platinum and palladium
It's A Negative Victory In Scotland!
The Financial Times is reporting that that outcome of the referendum on national independence in Scotland has become evident earlier than many expected because the "No" vote is going to be victorious by a larger margin than public opinion polls had predicted.
Sterling Surges As 'No' Vote Pulls Ahead
On 18 September 2014 an historic referndum was held in Scotland on possible separation from the United Kingsom.
Japan: Exports Decline Less Then Expected, Imports The Real Problem
Japanese exports declined by by 1.3% year-over-year in August and that was the good news. For one thing it was good news because Bloomberg surveyed 25 economists who provided an average estimate of -2.6%, double the actual.
Retirement Savings: Nearly 75% Of Potential Wasted
The latest report from The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR) reveals a system for retirement savings that was designed to produce an adequate retirement nest egg for a "typical" worker.
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