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U.S. durable goods orders, new home sales , and the Department of Energy's weekly oil inventories are the highlights of the early morning's events,...

NEW New Homes Sales Continue to Fall, Down 2.5% in May

Wed, Jun 25 2008, 7:00 AM

After five months of declines in the pace of new home sales , April's uptick appears to have been temporary as new home sales in the U.S. continued...

NEW Durable Goods Excluding Transport Falls in Line with Expectations in May

Wed, Jun 25 2008, 7:00 AM

Durable goods excluding transportation fell by 0.9% in May in the U.S. durable goods report on Wednesday, according to the Department of Commerce. ...

NEW FOMC Holds Target Rate at 2.00%, Cites Uncertainty in Inflation Outlook

Wed, Jun 25 2008, 7:00 AM

The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday that it would hold the Fed funds target rate at 2.00% , as was widely expected. The accompanying statement ...

NEW Volatility Compared To Last Time (A retrospective)

Wed, Jun 25 2008, 2:02 PM

NEW Uncle Ben's Tasty Bowl Of Rice...

Wed, Jun 25 2008, 1:21 PM

NEW Rebounding Nicely....

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 11:56 AM

NEW Tuesday 6/24/08 ........... Lot's of Volatility and More to Come

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 10:15 AM

NEW Already Cliff Diving...

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 9:28 AM

NEW Tuesday 6/24/08 ........... What Stimulus Check?

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 8:02 AM

NEW Consumer Confidence Down Sharply. More to follow!

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 8:00 AM

NEW Tuesday 6/24/08 ......... Pre-Data Update

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 7:33 AM

NEW U.S. House Prices Fall 0.8% Month-Over-Month in April, Says OFHEO

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 7:00 AM

U.S. house prices fell 0.8% month-over-month in April following March's revised 0.6% decline, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (...

NEW Treasury's Ryan Says Financial System Should Allow Banks to Fail

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 7:00 AM

Speaking in London at Euromoney's Global Borrowers Investors Forum 2008, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets, Anthony Ryan sai...

NEW Case Shiller Home Price Index Declines by Record Annual Levels in April

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 7:00 AM

The S&P Case-Shiller home price index continued to deteriorate in April as the 20-city composite index posted a record annual decline of 15.3% . ...

NEW U.S. Treasury's Paulson Says Housing Remains Biggest Challenge

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 7:00 AM

In an interview with a Mexican television station, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the biggest challenge facing the U.S. economy is an ...

NEW Tuesday's Events: Case-Shiller and OFHEO Home Prices, Rich. Fed Mfg, Alan Greenspan

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 7:00 AM

The S&P/Case Shiller house price index , data from the OFHEO and the Richmond Fed's manufacturing report will highlight the U.S. economic releases ...

NEW FOMC to Hold Interest Rates at 2.00%, Markets to Focus on Statement

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 7:00 AM

Not a single contrarian voice exists among the 101 economists surveyed by Bloomberg for Wednesday's U.S. rate announcement from the Federal Open Mar...

NEW Consumer Confidence Plummets to Lowest Level Since 1992

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 7:00 AM

The Conference Board's consumer confidence index for June tumbled to levels not seen since 1992 at 50.4 in Tuesday's report, led by a near 10-poin...

NEW Greenspan Says Turmoil Could Last for Some Time

Tue, Jun 24 2008, 7:00 AM

Speaking via satellite to a conference in Johannesburg, Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said the financial market crisis will continue for some...

NEW reprice for worse highly likely...

Mon, Jun 23 2008, 10:50 AM

NEW Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System Expands to 14 States

Mon, Jun 23 2008, 7:00 AM

The Conference of State Bank Supervisors ( CSBS ) and the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators (AARMR) announce that six more sta...

NEW Chicago Fed National Activity Index Improves in May

Mon, Jun 23 2008, 7:00 AM

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index came in at - 0.96 in May, up from the April reading of -1.23, which was downwardly revised from -1.17. Desp...

NEW Monday's Events: Chicago Fed National Activity

Mon, Jun 23 2008, 7:00 AM

It will be relatively quiet day today, with the only significant releases scheduled consisting of the Chicago Fed's National Activity Index and the ...

NEW Treasury's Steel Says De-Leveraging, Re-Pricing of Risk to Continue

Mon, Jun 23 2008, 7:00 AM

U.S. Treasury Under Secretary Robert Steel said the current de- leveraging in the financial sector and re-pricing of risk will continue for some ti...

NEW Monday 6/23/08 ........ Limited Data, Flat Morning, "Calm before the storm"

Mon, Jun 23 2008, 2:02 AM

NEW Moving Back up again.

Fri, Jun 20 2008, 12:19 PM

NEW worse still...

Fri, Jun 20 2008, 11:11 AM

NEW Down enough for a warning...

Fri, Jun 20 2008, 10:08 AM

NEW Friday ........ 6/20/08 ..... last week Jason, this week 4 Witches?

Fri, Jun 20 2008, 7:58 AM

NEW Operation Malicious Mortgage Yields 400 Arrests

Fri, Jun 20 2008, 7:00 AM

Following the third major "sweep" of the mortgage industry in four years, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investiga...

NEW The Day Ahead: Cdn Retail Sales; U.S. Senator McCain in Ottawa

Fri, Jun 20 2008, 7:00 AM

At 10:00 a.m. EDT, U.S. mass layoffs data for the month of May will be released from the U.S. Bureau of Labour of Statistics. There were 133,914 mas...

NEW And We're Back down Again (again)

Fri, Jun 20 2008, 2:17 PM

NEW Thursday 6/19/08 ........... It Lasted! (but is fighting to "last" again)

Thu, Jun 19 2008, 10:56 AM

NEW Confirmed

Thu, Jun 19 2008, 9:04 AM

NEW Imagine my surprise....

Thu, Jun 19 2008, 8:54 AM

NEW Thursday 6/19/08 ......... That Plan Went Out The Window...

Thu, Jun 19 2008, 8:23 AM