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Doesn't the balance of payments balance by construction? It's just a special case of a double-entry bookkeeping method for a country...

Very optimistic... Canada will kick a**.

Hmmmm, well, the news you have been listening to are portraying the situation not altogether accurately and altogether too simplistically. There's a whole variety of ways to "not be able to pay back your debt". For example, if they promise to pay off 80% of their debt outstanding, what does...

Who said they're on the verge of default? How do you define default?

That was before they went into the mkt to issue their new 7y...

It's not a spoofed website. There is a meeting of the Board of Governors that will be held on Monday.

This is just an error in the FT (probably due to the fact that the EUR bond mkt was closed on Friday). This is immediately obvious from the number in the Germany row. How can Germany be trading at a spread to Bund, if Germany is Bund? Here's the table taken from their website...

You may be thinking of Haver Analytics, as it's most commonly used as the source for US economic and mkt data. Generally, you might want to check if what you're looking for isn't available for free from FRED: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

Firstly, this is not a Federal Reserve website. It's a US Treasury Dept website. Secondly, what's so ridiculous about this yield curve? Thirdly, as I have mentioned in another thread, it's extremely improbable that the meeting on Monday has anything to do with the Fed doing anything with...

Yes, that's exactly my point, chaos... Various central banks have in the past made unexpected decisions at their scheduled meetings. Including, most recently the RBI and the BoI and, not so recently, the BoE. However, if the Fed were to actually hike the headline rate on Monday, that...

That would be extremely unlikely, for the simple reason that the body that is meeting on Monday is not the one that sets the policy rates. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is not the FOMC. The Board is, however, responsible, among other things, for setting the discount...

Stop panicking. It's not an "emergency" meeting... It's a meeting of the Board of Guv'nors to discuss matters related to the discount rate. As such, the most it might signal is another hike in the discount rate, which people have been talking about for a while now. Two such meetings...

You should go for it then... If your looking for good rates, you might also wanna check out Greek paper.

Well, if you want that, why don't you just create your own spreadsheet that will be full realtime? It's honestly not very hard, depending on accuracy desired. And you'll have full control over the methodology and the functionality.

They just came back on the bid, but gentle this time...

This has existed for years now... I don't understand what's there to develop, really. Check this out here (based on FedFund futures options prices): http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/data/fedfunds/index.cfm BBG has the FFIP fuctionality, which allows you to imply the probabilities...

It's an intervention that happened. BIS on behalf of the SNB in EURCHF spot.

Intervention just happened... BIS on the bid in thargs (I mean in spot, obv).

This ain't Greenlaw. It's most likely Bruce Kasman, who, IMO, is one of the best US economists out there.

If you're addressing me, I wish I knew enough about the gold/silver mkt to have an informed and meaningful opinion. However, I freely admit that I unfortunately know almost nothing.