Trouble appears to be brewing in these real estate markets.
The Fed’s actions, of course, amount to putting a gun to the head of American workers and forcing them to buy stocks in hopes of having enough money to live on in retirement.
Economists Brad Setser, John Hussman, and Paul Krugman discuss tax avoidance disguised as corporate investments.
The European Central Bank is widely expected to push its deposit rate further into negative territory Thursday, but the move comes as investors, economists...
After the financial crisis, central banks have less room to maneuver to stimulate economies but they have other tools they can use
As the fallout from the U.S.-China trade war broadens, Bank of Japan policymakers are more open to discussing the possibility of expanding stimulus at their board meeting on Sept 18-19, sources familiar with their thinking say.
Analysts at Citi say gold prices will “trade stronger for longer” and see them possibly topping $2,000 an ounce and posting new highs in the next year or two.
Gold has been on a three-day skid, but as Fox Business anchor Liz Claman put it, "So what? It's been a breakout summer for bullion."Over the last three months, gold is up about 12% and has hit six-and-a-half year highs in recent weeks.Peter Schiff joined Claman, along with, Frank Holmes and Imaru Cassanova on The Claman Countdown to talk about the yellow metal.
$946mn worth of inflows last week across all regions, primarily in North America and China.
If the ultimate goal of lower interest rates is to spark economic activity through demand for loans, then the Federal Reserve’s first cut in more than a decade can be deemed a failure.After the central bank lowered its target rate for overnight loans between banks on July 31 to
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the current fiscal year deficit has exceeded the $1 trillion level.
The government has no reason to care about gold, so what is driving the action in the metals right now? Here's what...
After two boom years the picture has changed for America’s factories. Battered by rising uncertainty and the damper it has put on capital expenditures, slowing export markets, a stronger dollar, and higher input costs due to tariffs, U.S. manufacturers are making less than they did a year ago.
The National Federation of Independent Business small business optimism index fell 1.6 points to a seasonally adjusted 103.1 in August, the worst showing...
Chinese yuan could hit 7.3 per dollar by the end of the year, CLSA says.
Treasury yields edge higher on Tuesday as investors prepare to make way for a sizable auction of government paper set for sale later in the afternoon.
The silver market in India has enjoyed massive growth over the last several years. Demand for the white metal has increased from around 3,000 to 6,000 tons over the last five years, according to Chirag Thakkar, CEO of the Indian bullion company Amrapali Gujarat.The Silver Institute interviewed Thakkar for the latest edition of Silver News.
A type of financial engineering that proved to be toxic during the financial crisis is slowly making a comeback as banks try to offset the risk of their borrowers not repaying their loans.
Facing the risk of a shutdown that could upend workers' lives and hit the economy, House Democrats will push to pass a short-term fix.
Germany can counter a possible economic crisis by injecting “many, many billions of euros” into the economy, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday