Here is the economic events calendar for Monday, as well as few other interesting clips. // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ var fs2_applet = { width:470, height:376, category:'default' [...]

The FED held its annual monetary symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming today. That was the big event of the day, one that everybody waited for. Currencies, and most other financial markets, practically froze in hours leading to Bernankes’s speech at the meeting. Mr Chairman acknowledged that the economy is not doing what he had been [...]

Japan’s consumer prices continued to decline in July for the 17th straight month, in another sign that the country’s economy remains mired in deflation and further raising hopes for additional monetary easing by the Bank of Japan. The nationwide core consumer price index, which excludes volatile fresh food prices, fell 1.1% from a year earlier [...]