After two jam packed days of economic releases, Friday will be a slightly slower day. There are no U.S. economic releases scheduled, but several European and Canadian indicators will be released before markets open. Only three top...

Between the Japanese Industrial Production number, that will be released just half an hour before the day ends, and the University of Michigan’s Confidence report, which will be released about an hour into trading, and all the...

The following video highlights one of the scariest surveillance technologies you’ve ever seen. With Congress having recently authorized 30,000 drones to patrol America’s skies by 2015, this technology will soon become available to law enforcement officials all...

Tomorrow should be a pretty busy day: the US ISM services number will be released, along with its European equivalents, the PMI services number. A handful of big companies, including NYSE Euronext, will release earnings reports before...

Lucy H. Pearce/TinyBuddha “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” ~Nelson Mandela When I was a trainee teacher at a Cambridge University, I attended one of the oldest, most...

Major economic announcements on Monday will be focused around Europe, with readings of confidence out of Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands. Chinese industrial profits are also set for release overnight and will likely dominate headlines. Here’s what...

All eyes will be on China tonight.. Here’s what you need to know. At 10:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, HSBC reports its China Flash Manufacturing PMI numbers. The prior reading on the index was 49.3, indicating a...

The Federal Reserve releases the minutes of its last Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting Wednesday afternoon.  And the sub-plot in the morning will be global retail sales data and retailers’ earnings. Here’s what you need to...

It’s a quiet start to the week with very little planned on the economic data front Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know. The Reserve Bank of Australia releases its August meeting minutes at 9:30 p.m. ET...

Releases scheduled Friday look set to send investors sailing into the weekend without too much extra to worry about. Here’s what you need to know. Germany reports producer prices at 2:00 a.m. ET. Economists are expecting a...