Indianapolis News

• Indianapolis to Court CME Wall Street Journal
• Indianapolis based ExactTarget files for $100M IPO IBJ

U.S. Economy

• Chart: Manufacturing index rises to 52.7, the 28th month in a row of expansion (anything above 50) St. Louis Federal Reserve
• Bank earnings hit highest level since 2007 AP
• The first time in 62 years the U.S. is set to become a net fuel exporter Wall Street Journal
• U.S. Economic Growth Is Revised Down to 2 Percent The New York Times

Credit/Debt

• Federal Reserve household credit report: Consumers shed debt CNN Money
• CoreLogic’s New Credit Score Exposes Even More of Your Financial Life The New York Times

Employment

• US unemployment rate falls to 8.6 per cent, payrolls up 120,000 FT Alphaville
• Mentor Support Key to Starting a Business Gallup

Residential Real Estate

• Average Foreclosure Time Sets New Record. Nears 2 years. CNBC
• Average rate on 30-year fixed home loan at or below 4 percent for 5th straight week AP
• Home prices decline in Sept Reuters
• America Underwater – Interactive map with state by state mortgage data Marketplace

Central Banks (Federal Reserve, ECB et al)

• Liquidity for Europe: Fed, Five Central Banks Cut Rate on Dollar Swaps Bloomberg
• The Central Banks Are Doing What? Planet Money
• What a lender of last resort looks like. The Federal Reserve and Morgan Stanley from late 2008 to early 2009. Reuters
• What is the difference between fiscal & monetary policy? San Francisco Federal Reserve

Miscellaneous

• Federal budget projections vs. reality. Interactive graph: Sunlight Foundation
• Chart: The number of patent applications in the world rose from ~800,000 in the early 1980s to 1.8m in 2009 The Economist