Money, Currencies & Interest Rates

President Obama gave his annual assessment of the US last month and so we felt it an opportune time to also review the state of the union a little closer to home and...

Highlander SUV Exports to Begin Toyota City, Feb 9, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announces that Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana Inc. (TMMI), one of TMC's production bases in the...

Tokyo, Feb 9, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Pioneer Corporation today announced its consolidated third-quarter and nine-month business results for the periods ended December 31, 2011. Consolidated Financial Highlights ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (In millions of...

Tokyo, Feb 7, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) today announced financial results for the nine months ended December 31, 2011. On a consolidated basis, net revenues for the nine...

As a result of a growing number of industries setting up in Sohar, Muscat in 2008 created of a new economic zone in Sohar. It had already attracted a number of projects to...

The US Senate Banking Committee on Feb. 2 unanimously approved a new regimen of anti-Iran sanctions which will for the first time threaten to punish the global financial telecommunications network - nearly all...

Stenham Asset Management has appointed Pablo Balan as Head of Risk Management and Quantitative Research. Balan, who joined the firm in the last quarter of 2011 is based in Stenham's London office. He...

Tokyo, Feb 2, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Motors Corporation today announced its sales and financial results through the third quarter of the 2011 fiscal year ending March 31, 2012 and its...

Following the adoption of a regulation by the Central Bank Board, the HSBC bank is the first authorized to offer currency derivatives, reports Nacion.com (Jan. 9, 2012). Currency derivatives ensure the value of...

The Treasury Ministry on Jan. 12 announced a $45 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to improve public transport of passengers and general traffic in the metropolitan area of San Salvador.The loan...

Nicaragua received $900 million in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2011, reports Agencia EFE (Dec. 19, 2011). The projected figure is 80% more than 2010. Javier Chamorro, Exec. Dir. of the State Agency...

2011 was the year of people power; whether it was the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, recall elections or MF Global customers fighting against the big banks, people demanded to be heard and...

Guatemalan exports grew in 2011 by 25%, the highest percentage in the last 30 years, reports Elperiodico.com.gt (Jan. 2, 2011). Due to the high world price of coffee, silver and gold, oil and...

Three-quarters of executives surveyed at the Insurance Information Institute's Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York said they expect an improvement in profitability in 2012. III conducted the survey at the forum,...

HEADNOTE On November 15, 2011, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago held a conference to explore what has been driving the large and rapid increases in Midwest farmland values. Academics, industry representatives, and...

THIS ARTICLE IS A CONTINUATION of the Viewpoint published in PPI September 2011. As mentioned in the first part, the aggressive capacity expansion that has taken place over the last 10 years in...

HEADNOTE According to participants in the Chicago Fed's annual Economic Outlook Symposium, the U.S. economy is forecasted to grow at a pace below its historical average in 2012, following a year with an...

While the housing market has a long, hard road ahead of it, signs abound that the market is finally in the throes of a genuine, sustainable recovery. Among the key statistics and forecasts...

HEADNOTE The seventh annual Community Bankers Symposium, co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), was held...