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The euro zone unexpectedly shrank in February, adding to fears that Europe might be about to fall back in to recession. The latest survey results from Markit Economics' purchasing managers' index (PMI) showed that the index fell back to 49.7 in February, down from 50.4 in January. The results are...

On Friday, Bloomberg News released spreadsheets which detail the daily borrowing totals for 407 banks and companies which tapped Federal Reserve emergency programs during the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis. This is the first time that this data has been made available in this form. The...

Benzinga's Zing Talk is switching to a new feed - please see this blog post for more information. You're listening to Zing Talk. Direct Download Subscribe in iTunes I'm Matthew Boesler. Joining me on the line now from London is Matthew Lynn, Bloomberg News columnist and author of the new...

Will we ever know what really caused the collapse of Wall Street? Bloomberg News columnist Jonathan Weil has some doubts. Weil says that to get to the heart of what went wrong with the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's report (released last Wednesday), you need not look any further than page...

According to the ADP employment report released today, US private-sector firm employment has increased 42,000 in July. The employment number released by the ADP report far exceeds the expectations of a gain of 30,000 jobs by economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. Joel Prakken, chairman of...

John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who made billions by predicting the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market, has fallen on hard times...relatively speaking. Bloomberg News has recently reported that Paulson's $9 billion Advantage fund lost 5.8% in the first six months of 2010. His Advantage...

We all know the stock market can be irrational. It can be brazenly optimistic such as Nasdaq 5,000; and it can be completely despondent like last year's Dow 6,550. So, with the S&P 500 (SPX) falling 14% since it's April peak, is the stock market acting irrationally once again? A little-noticed...

Bloomberg is out with an interesting article this afternoon that says some U.S. Companies are using a tax dodge called “Transfer Pricing,” where they are allowed to legally avoid some income taxes by converting sales in one country to profits in another -- on paper only, and often in places where...

I used to subscribe to Barrons. No more! It has gone down hill. I got tired of the blatant political right wing, diatribes. Like an editorial a few years ago that said that global warming was a myth. In this week’s Barrons there appears an article entitled, Congress May Wallop Smaller Banks, By...