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With the world's largest economy suddenly awash in oil and gas, might the U.S. dollar join the ranks of the dollars of Canada and Australia as a "commodity currency"?
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Discussing the global demand for coal, joint ventures in China, and future growth prospects for the world's largest private sector coal company, with Gregory Boyce, Peabody Energy chairman/CEO.
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Japan is the first G7 country to fall back into recession, but will it be the last?
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CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders discuss the day's top trades and the stocks they'll be watching tomorrow.
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CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks at where gold, oil and precious metals are likely headed tomorrow.
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After reading the last few FOMC statements, we get the sense that the Fed is acting like a traffic cop at the scene of an accident, ushering gawking motorists along… nothing to see here folks, just keep moving on.
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CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders discuss the day's top trades and the stocks they'll be watching tomorrow.
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Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and current professor at Berkeley, is mad that this country’s most efficient manufacturing industry made money in the first quarter. He expressed his disgust over the weekend in a piece published at SFGate.com.
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CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders discuss the day's top trades and the stocks they'll be watching tomorrow.
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CNBC's Sharon Epperson discusses the day's activity in the commodities markets and looks at where gold, oil and precious metals are likely headed tomorrow.
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When the PPI increases by more than the CPI, it means producers are absorbing the higher costs of raw materials rather than passing them on to consumers.
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After putting the kibosh on travel spending during much of the economic recession, Corporate America is back out on the road, but look for the best growth rates in emerging-market regions.
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High gasoline and airline ticket prices may deter some Americans, but it may may be time to break from the austerity of recent years.
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CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders discuss the day's top trades and the stocks they'll be watching tomorrow.
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The bullish stance by financial speculators is well documented, as readers well know, we have been bleating about this topic in The Schork Report for months now.
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Everything must be on the table as the U.S. Congress works to cut the deficit, including Medicare, Social Security and entitlements
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In regard to yesterday's (Thursday's) U.S. Senate Committee on Finance farce (aka the hearing on Oil and Tax Incentives and Rising Energy Prices), what can we say that we have not already said in the past about these political sideshows?
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CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders discuss the day's top trades and the stocks they'll be watching tomorrow.
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The market dropped by more than $11 a barrel last Thursday, and by almost $15 a barrel the following session. Then on Monday and Tuesday of this week the market rallied by $13.50 and near $12, respectively. This is insane. These numbers would have been inconceivable just a few years ago.
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The flooding along the Mississippi River and the potential impact to downstream capacity at the mouth of the River was digested over the weekend. Nymex gasoline opened yesterday's pit session on the bid as a result. That is not hard to understand. The only question is...
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Last week the intra-week peak-to-trough decline in the euro/dollar cross plunged by 4.2%, the 17th largest negative range since 2002. The overall week-on-week decline amounted to 3.32%. That was the largest decline since the first week of the year and the 9th largest since 2002.
Power Shift
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In a domestic energy market developing faster than just about anyone can remember, the key is in finding an edge.
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The environmental impact of "fracking," the drilling technology largely responsible for America's boom in energy production, is hotly contested.
