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Okay... first, blindfold me and put a dart in my right hand... spin me around three times... jam the business end of the dart in...

In short, [the BIS is] meeting to consider making gold a Tier 1 asset for commercial banks with 100% weighting, rather than a Ti...

A better question would be: why would consumer confidence be up? The Conference Board said today that its index of consumer conf...

``Just as you thought things couldn't get any worse, credit markets are about to be hit by a veritable tsunami of maturing corpo...

``The CME and ICE have been given these resources because those resources need to be in place. If there was to be a failure of t...

European policy-makers languish in denial. Last week's "informal" European Union summit in Brussels focused on yet another "resc...

``if what Bloomberg is implying is that Iksil was effectively overriding "real" marks, and using imaginary (or "forced") bids an...

While the commodity spectrum as a whole peaked out around 14 months ago the sheer number of potential black swan events on the h...

He has a good point that it doesn't take much to runafoul of this, and as inflation chugs along, the bar will get lower and lowe...

``Judging from the shift in the Eurepo curve, the banks themselves don't believe that any boosts will last longer than a month.'...