Economic Data

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have surged in overnight trading and the yield curve has reversed its recent flattening trend as weak economic data has prompted a shift of funds into shorter maturity ...  

U.S. retail sales rose a disappointing 0.1% in June despite nearly $50 billion in stimulus checks for consumers, Commerce Department data released Tuesday revealed.  

The FTSE 100 was down 1.22 per cent this morning amid a barrage of poor economic data.  

Despite weaker economic data and moderate comments from ECB President Trichet, the Euro strengthened against the US dollar.  

Economic data has been very weak with the service, manufacturing and construction sectors contracting at the same time, which is the first in 7 years.  

Japan's economy has so far held up but the outlook remains weak. Today, Bloomberg reports that Japan's current account surplus shrank in May.  

Wall Street capped a shortened trading week with a mixed finish Thursday after some uneven economic data: news of a contraction in the nations services sector and a tame reading on employment.  

WALL Street capped a shortened trading week with a mixed finish yesterday after some uneven economic data: news of a contraction in the United States' services sector and a tame reading on employment.  

Zimbabwe's slide into political and economic chaos represents one of the most dramatic declines in any country's governance over the past decade, according to World Bank bank data released on Tuesday.  

Vodafone Group plc, Nortel Networks Corp. and Motorola Inc. led telecommunications stocks broadly higher in Friday trades as U.S. markets basked in the glow of positive economic data on inflation and falling ...  

The Kleiman Evangelista Eye Center has compiled data to support the theory that a one-time cost of a LASIK surgery is more economic than a lifelong of glasses and contact lens prescriptions.