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Reviving Health Reform  Washington Democrats sought to reinvigorate stalled discussions on how to reform the nation’s health insurance system with President Barack Obama hosting a full day summit between House and Senate leaders from both parties.

  U.S. Market Commentary
Stocks Little Changed In Early Afternoon Trading - U.S. Commentary
Stocks continue to linger near the flat line in early afternoon trading on Friday, as a lackluster set of clues on the....
Stocks Continue To Show A Lack Of Direction In Late Morning Trading - U.S. Commentary
Stocks are turning in another lackluster performance during trading on Friday, as traders are reluctant to make any....
Stocks Turn Mixed Following Lackluster Economic Data - U.S. Commentary
Stocks are showing a lack of direction in mid-morning trading on Friday, as a mixed batch of economic data once again failed....

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European Markets Rise On Positive Economic Data - European Commentary
The European markets rose Friday after reports showed Eurozone industrial production rose at a record pace in January and....
European Averages In Positive Territory
The major European averages are trading in positive territory in early afternoon trading Friday, buoyed by encouraging....
European Markets Fall On China, U.S. Data - European Commentary
The European markets fell on Thursday after reports showed that China's inflation accelerated more than expected and U.S.....
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Euro Rallies Versus Dollar On Talk Of Greek Bailout
The euro continued its comeback versus "safe haven currencies" on Friday, touching a monthly high versus the dollar amid renewed faith that the Greek debt crisis can be contained. Sovereign debt issues in Greece and other vulnerable European nations have crippled the euro of late, but reports indicating that France and Germany are preparing a $5....
Business Inventories Come In Unchanged In January
Business inventories were essentially unchanged in the month of January, according to a report released by the Commerce Department on Friday, with modest decreases in wholesale and retail inventories offsetting a modest increase in manufacturers' inventories. The report showed that business inventories came in unchanged in January following a....
Retail Sales Show Unexpected Growth In February Despite Snowstorms
Retail sales unexpectedly showed a modest increase in the month of February, according to a report released by the Commerce Department on Friday, with the unexpected growth partly due to a jump in sales by electronics and appliance stores. The report showed that retail sales rose by 0.3 percent in February following a downwardly revised 0.1....
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Poland Jan. Current Account Deficit Narrows
Poland's current account deficit narrowed to US$710 million in January from US$1.03 billion in the previous month, the ....

ECB's Nowotny: Economic Crisis Over, Growth Still Weak
The worst of the economic crisis is over but overall growth is still weak, European Central Bank Governing Council member ....

Romania Jan. Current Account Deficit Narrows
Romania's current account deficit stood at EUR 123 million in January, which was 73.2% lower than the previous year, the ....

  U.S. Treasury Market Updates
Treasuries Sink As February Retail Sales Surprise To The Upside
Treasuries End Mixed After Strong Thirty-Year Bond Sale, Lackluster Data
Federal Government Auctions $13 Billion In 30-Year Notes

   Asian Market Commentary

Asian Markets End Mixed Ahead Of Data In US
Mixed trading was witnessed across the markets in Asia on Friday as traders preferred to exercise caution, ....

Indian Market Ends Flat
The Indian market ended the trading session on Friday on a flat note as traders preferred to adopt a ....

Japanese Market Extends Gains On Optimism About Monetary Easing
The stock market in Japan extended gains for the second consecutive day on Friday amid optimism that Bank of ....

 
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Latvia Signs $144 Million Loan Agreement With World Bank

China Retaliates Against US Human Rights Report

Netanyahu Conveys Regret To Biden Over "unfortunate Timing" Of Settlement Plan

Libya Accepts US Apology Over Comments Made On Gaddafi's Jihad Call

  Currency Alerts

Dollar Recovers From Multi-week Low Against Israeli Shekel

Canadian Dollar Spikes Up Against Majors After Unemployment Rate Data

Dollar Strengthens Against Most Majors Amid Economic Reports

Dollar Advances Ahead Of Economic Reports

Yen Recoups Slightly From Multi-day Low Against Most Majors

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President Obama Delays Trip To Indonesia And Australia; Health Care Reform Likely Reason
According to a Twitter post from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, President Barack Obama is delaying his upcoming ....

Survey Shows Closing Gap In Generational Differences Concerning Abortion
A new Gallup survey released Friday showed that the generational differences in support for broadly legal abortion have ....

Durbin Spokesman Suggests Public Option Could Be Revived
While many believed that the public option had died as Democrats attempt to push health care reform through Congress, ....

  North American Economic News

Core-Mark Holding Q4 Profit Rises - Update
Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc.(CORE) reported that its fourth-quarter profit increased from the previous year quarter. ....

Business Inventories Come In Unchanged In January
Business inventories were essentially unchanged in the month of January, according to a report released by the Commerce ....

Consumer Sentiment Index Unexpectedly Slips To 72.5
While retail sales data released earlier in the day suggested that consumers continue to spend, Reuters and the University of ....

  Asian Economic News

Philippine Govt. Debt Eases In December
The Philippines' Bureau of Treasury said Friday that the national government debt decreased 0.6% or PHP 28 billion from....

S&P Raises Foreign Currency Rating On Indonesia
Rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday, raised its long-term foreign currency sovereign credit ratings on the Republic of....

Hong Kong Q4 Industrial Output Drops
Friday, Hong Kong's Census and Statistics Department announced that the industrial production for manufacturing industries....

Economic Calendar

DateTime Economic Indicator PeriodActualForecastPreviousCountry 
3/12/1000:00 GDP (Q-o-Q)Q4 F -0.8 % - -0.5 (R) % Greece News  audioimage
3/12/1000:00 GDP (Y-o-Y)Q4 F -2.5 % - -2.5 (R) % Greece   audioimage
3/12/1000:00 Current Account Balance - BoPJAN€ -1.27 B-€ -1.29 BPortugal   audioimage
3/12/1000:00 Capital Account Balance - BoPJAN€ -5.53 M-€ 100.17 MPortugal   audioimage
3/12/1000:00 Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)JAN 16.7 %- 17.6(R) %India News  audioimage
3/12/1000:00 Unemployment RateDEC 10.2 % - 8.9 % Greece News  audioimage
3/12/1000:00 Official Foreign ReservesMAR 5$ 278.43 B-$ 278.36 BIndia   audioimage
3/12/1002:00 Wholesale Price Index (M-o-M)FEB 0.1 %- 1.3 %Germany   audioimage
3/12/1002:00 Wholesale Price Index (Y-o-Y)FEB 2.1 %- 1.9 %Germany News  audioimage
3/12/1002:00 Trade BalanceJAN€ -55 M-€ -70 MFinland News  audioimage
3/12/1002:00 ExportsJAN€ 3.28 B-€ 3.55 BFinland   audioimage
3/12/1002:00 ImportsJAN€ 3.34 B-€ 3.61 BFinland   audioimage
3/12/1002:45 Current Account Balance - BoPJAN€ -3.4 B€ -3.9 B€ -3.3 BFrance News  audioimage
3/12/1003:00 ExportsJAN€ 3.14 B-€ 3.23 BSlovakia   audioimage
3/12/1003:00 ImportsJAN€ 3.11 B-€ 3.28 BSlovakia   audioimage
3/12/1003:00 Trade BalanceJAN€ 0.03 B-€ 0.06 BSlovakia   audioimage
3/12/1003:00 CPI (M-o-M)FEB -0.2 %- -1.0 %Spain   audioimage
3/12/1003:00 CPI (Y-o-Y)FEB 0.8 %- 1.0 %Spain News  audioimage
3/12/1003:00 CPI - EU Harmonised (M-o-M)FEB -0.2 % - -1.1 % Spain   audioimage
3/12/1003:00 CPI - EU Harmonised (Y-o-Y)FEB 0.9 %- 0.9(R) %Spain   audioimage
3/12/1003:00 Current Account Balance - BoPJANCZK 15.62 B-CZK -11.32 BCzech Republic News  audioimage
3/12/1003:00 Capital Account Balance - BoPJANCZK 0.35 B-CZK 15.26 BCzech Republic   audioimage
3/12/1003:00 Financial Account Balance - BoPJANCZK -0.88 B-CZK -5.04 BCzech Republic   audioimage
3/12/1003:00 Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)JAN 19.1 %- 11.2(R) %Romania   audioimage
3/12/1004:00 CPI (M-o-M)FEB 0.6 % - 0.6(R) % Bulgaria News  audioimage
3/12/1004:00 CPI (Y-o-Y)FEB 1.2 %- 0.6 (R) %Bulgaria   audioimage
3/12/1004:00 CPI - EU Harmonised (M-o-M)FEB 0.3 % - 0.6 % Bulgaria   audioimage
3/12/1004:00 CPI - EU Harmonised (Y-o-Y)FEB 0.9 % - 0.6 (R) % Bulgaria   audioimage
3/12/1004:00 Labor Cost (Q-o-Q)Q4 0.6 % - 0.5 % Italy News  audioimage
3/12/1004:00 Labor Cost (Y-o-Y)Q4 NSA 3.4 % - 2.5 (R) % Italy   audioimage
3/12/1004:15 PPI (Y-o-Y)Q4 -0.3 % - -2 % Hong Kong   audioimage
3/12/1004:15 Manufacturing Production (Y-o-Y)Q4 -4.9 % - -8.6 % Hong Kong News  audioimage
3/12/1004:30 Trade BalanceJAN€ -37.15 M-€ -164.1 MSlovenia News  audioimage
3/12/1004:30 ExportsJAN€ 1.21 B-€ 1.23 BSlovenia   audioimage
3/12/1004:30 ImportsJAN€ 1.25 B-€ 1.40 BSlovenia   audioimage
3/12/1005:00 GDP (Y-o-Y)Q4 -3.0 %- -2.5 %Cyprus News  audioimage
3/12/1005:00 Industrial Production (M-o-M)JAN 1.4 % - -10.9 % Malta   audioimage
3/12/1005:00 Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)JAN -14.6 % - -9.9 % Malta   audioimage
3/12/1005:00 Industrial Production (Y-o-Y)JAN -2.5 % - -7.6 % Greece   audioimage
3/12/1005:00 Industrial Production (M-o-M)JAN 1.7 % 0.7 % 0.6(R) %Eurozone News  audioimage
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