US trade agenda awaits midterm elections

By Shawn Donnan (Financial Times) See at  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/209bac34-5834-11e4-b331-00144feab7de.html#ixzz3GxL4KwPf If Republicans seize control of the Senate in next month’s midterm elections, it would be bad news politically for Barack Obama and his...

World watches for first US interest rate hike in 8 years

As the US economy picks up pace its Federal Reserve is inching closer to raising interest rates, a move that will send ripples across the globe. The US is shaking off the hangover from the financial crisis that hammered Europe and even knocked mighty China off its...

Dollar heads for best run in 17 years

  (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar headed for its ninth straight week of gains on Friday, some measure of how the economic fortunes of the United States and its major economic peers are diverging after six years of financial turmoil.   Benchmark 10-year...