Seven of 13 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News predict that the economy was in recession in the first two quarters of the year, which will prompt the central bank to cut interest rates as early as July. ...
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Certainly the downturn in the US economy is having a disasterous trickle down theory for Canada's ailing lumber industry. Let's hope China bites and buys our lumber to build all their homes destroyed in the...
HSBC has raised its 2008 price forecast for gold to $915 an ounce from $850. You have to wonder, having upgraded its 2008 forecast by a large margin - how long before the bank does it again?
It was easy for ex Government minister and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party John Prescott to advocate the building of 250,000 houses in Northamptonshire, Northants, county in central England in the United...
"Doom-laden forecasts that world oil supplies are poised to fall off the edge of a cliff are wide of the mark, according to leading oil industry experts who gave warning that human factors, not geology, will drive the oil market.
A landmark study of more than 800 oilfields by...
"Thursday, January 17, 2008
Unsafe at any price: World's Cheapest Car Environmentally Costly
By Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (IPS) - Nothing has generated as much hyperbole in the global automobile industry in recent years as the unveiling, last week, of an ultra-cheap...
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According to HousingPredictor.com which provides independent real estate market forecasts for more than 250 cities in all 50 U.S. States second year in a row Miami leads the list of Worst 25 Housing Markets with the highest forecasted deflation.
The Worst 25 are composed...
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"A 22-year-old Plymouth inventor has created $500 motorized skates that zip users along more quickly than those fancy balancing scooters, and at a far lower cost.
Ilya Kaganovich sees his iShoes as ideal...
This press release from Campbell's Soup forecasts top soup trends for 2008 cclassified as 'emerging' or 'embraced' trends in soup. I'm ok with mum's chicken rather than rhubarb or fig soup."Beets, Farro, Fig Relish...
Today, I will concentrate on "rare-event" trading. This method is popular among hedge-funds. George Soros is a most skillful exponent of this type of trading.
"Waves of up to 14 metres in height are being predicted for the west coast this weekend.
They would be the highest experienced for a number of years.
The Marine Institute and Met Éireann have issued a warning to all ships, fishing vessels and anyone close to the shoreline to...
The way of life has really mutated in every folks in the world. The mobile phone has been known as the addicted version of technology.The tumblog and IM are really famous in these days. Apart from that SMS is really a good way of communication and its playing a major role in...
Ny Alesund, Norway (ANTARA News/Reuters) - A thaw of Antarctic ice is
outpacing predictions by the U.N. climate panel and could in the worst
case drive up world sea levels by 2 metres (6 ft) by 2100, a leading
expert...
Unbelievable! It has a transmitter in its handle that picks up signals from the Internet to compile a weather forecast. If you leave it by the front door, the handle will signal you if you're going to need it.