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MSNBC
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General Electric Co. reported a smaller-than-expected first-quarter profit Friday and lowered its outlook for fiscal 2008, as a slowing U.S. economy sapped its financial services business.
GE, which also makes jet engines, railroad locomotives, water t..
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MSNBC
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Persistent fears about the world economy battered global stocks again Monday and drove investors toward safer assets despite expectations of more interest cuts from the Federal Reserve to bolster growth.
Investors around the world have been jittery for..
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BusinessWeek
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Government spending on education and health—two growth areas—might be enough to buoy the economy
A consumer crunch now seems inevitable. The housing market is in free fall, and home-equity loans, which many people used as piggy banks, are becoming..
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MSNBC
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After six years of uninterrupted growth, the outlook for the U.S. economy in 2008 has darkened considerably in just the past month. While many economists say it’s too soon to know whether a recession is coming, forecasters say the latest economic figure..
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Reuters
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday Washington was following a strong dollar policy and indicated he expected it to rebound, emphasizing the U.S. economy's long-term strength should help the currency.
But Paulson warned in a radio inte..
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BBC News
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European shares have fallen sharply in morning trading, mirroring earlier falls in East Asia as worries about the US economy continue.
The UK's FTSE 100 index was down 1.4% to 6,435 just after noon in London, while Germany's Dax had lost 1.4%, and Fran..
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CNN
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Here I go. I am about to walk into one of the biggest sucker's games in the whole world of economics: declaring that the U.S. consumer is tapped out, so desperately in hock and troubled about the future that he finally just can't spend like it's 1999 anym..
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BusinessWeek
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U.S. data show that moving jobs overseas hasn't hurt the economy. Here's why those stats are wrong.
Whenever critics of globalization complain about the loss of American jobs to low-cost countries such as China and India, supporters point to the powerf..
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SF Gate
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With freeway interchanges reduced to rubble at a crucial nexus near the Bay Bridge, what kind of hit will the Bay Area economy take?
Remarkably little, according to economic experts.
"It's going to be miserable for commuters, but in terms of potenti..
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Washington Post
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Unemployment fell in March to 4.4 percent as a rebound in construction hiring helped the economy add 180,000 jobs over the month, a better showing than expected, the government reported today.
Hiring in the education, health care and retail sectors was..
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SF Gate
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During the 18 1/2 years Alan Greenspan was chairman of the Federal Reserve, he scrupulously avoided forecasting recessions. Now it seems he can't stop using the R-word, and that has created headaches for his successor, Ben Bernanke.
Greenspan delivered..
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ABC News
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Mar 2, 2007 (AP)— Stocks stumbled in the final session of a tumultuous week Friday as the yen rallied against the dollar and concerns about the U.S. economy still dogged investors after Tuesday's huge drop. The Dow Jones industrials logged their worst..
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Washington Times
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Economic weakness spread beyond the stricken housing and auto sectors last month, with reports showing U.S. manufacturing shrank for the first time in 31/2 years and construction dropped the most since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks...
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Christian Science Monitor
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For China, it's a record buildup of foreign capital. For the rest of the world, it serves as a reminder: To an increasing degree, bureaucrats in Beijing aren't just guiding their own economy, but the world's as well...
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CNN
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Not long ago an investment banker worth millions told me that he wasn't in his line of work for the money. "If I was doing this for the money," he said, with no trace of irony, "I'd be at a hedge fund." What to say? Only on a small plot of real esta..
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BusinessWeek
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U.S. charity has stumbled along with the economy. From food pantries on up, contributions have diminished, just when they're needed most
It's called a food pantry, but a scarcity of goods is taking over the shelves. Despite the efforts of the nonprofit..
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BusinessWeek
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New wealth from commodities is fueling growth and expanding the consumer economy. And that presents great opportunities for investors
The Brazilian economy is barely recognizable to those who knew it more than five years ago. In those days it was plagu..
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BusinessWeek
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The remaining Presidential hopefuls talk of transforming the economy to save the environment. But who would actually get the job done?
Jason Grumet has a simple criterion for judging how to pick the best Presidential candidate. Grumet is the director o..
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BusinessWeek
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Technology is no longer immune to the weak economy. Still, investors hope reports from Intel, Apple, and seven other titans forecast resilience
Though the technology sector is no longer the safe haven it seemed as the economy began stumbling last summe..
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BusinessWeek
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Results for January to March may deliver important clues on the state of the economy and where the market may be headed
The first-quarter earnings season is kicking into high gear at an uncertain time for investors.
The U.S. economy teeters close to..
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