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BusinessWeek
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As recession looms, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Slide are taking a go-easy approach before selling shares to the public
During the Web's heyday, a profitable Internet company nearing $100 million in annual sales while luring a million new customers a month..
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MSNBC
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Roland JonesAssociate editorProfileE-mailGeneral Motors’ CEO Rick Wagoner said Monday that the U.S. automotive industry is in a recession, but should weather the storm as long as the economic climate doesn’t worsen.
Speaking to CNBC from the fl..
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MSNBC
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This week’s flood of readings on inflation, retail sales and earnings is just what a data-hungry Wall Street has been anxious for.
But it could be a case of the old saying, be careful what you ask for, because you might actually get it. Evidence that..
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MSNBC
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Which is worse: Recession or inflation?
Those two economic ills, the Federal Reserve’s primary concerns, call for opposite policies. Despite recent inflation pressure from higher food and energy prices, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thur..
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BusinessWeek
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Rising joblessness suggests the downdraft from the credit crunch is spreading, and the central bank will have to slash rates more aggressively to avoid a nasty recession
It looks as if the Federal Reserve is crawling out of the frying pan and into the..
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MSNBC
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The start of 2008 has brought a harsh reality to Wall Street: The U.S. may indeed be headed toward recession.
So, after suffering punishing losses the first three trading days of the year, the stock market will be seizing on any data or forecast in the..
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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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CNN
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Problems in housing, the financial markets and the first job decline in four years have made a Federal Reserve rate cut next week all but certain. But it has also raised talk about a recession - and whether the Fed is able to prevent one.
While most ec..
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Bloomberg
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Tighter credit standards among mortgage lenders might lower U.S. home prices by 10 percent this year and push the economy into recession, a Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst said in a report.
New Century Financial Corp., the second-biggest subprime lender an..
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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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Associated Content
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On Tuesday, U.S. Stocks plummeted more than 500 points in a single day. According to market experts, the drop may be a sign of concerns about the slowing rate of business growth, worries that the price of equities has become too inflated, or fears of a po..
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MSNBC
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The odds the country will fall into its first recession since 2001 are rising sharply.
Thirty percent of economists now believe the economy will shrink in the first half of this year, up from 10 percent who thought this in January, according to a surve..
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BusinessWeek
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As recession looms, investors could do worse than to hedge their positions using bear-market mutual funds, which bet against upturns in the market
With the U.S. economy facing the likelihood of a recession, is it too late to jump on the bear-market ban..
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BusinessWeek
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An unexpected decline on the month indicates that consumers are digging in their heels, adding to recession fears
Amid rising prices for gasoline and other essentials, a weakening labor market, and continued turmoil in financial markets, a report on re..
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BusinessWeek
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As the economy teeters between bad and worse, one question looms: What's the best course of action? Here's what can be done. And what can't
Wall Street got its hopes up on Mar. 11. Elated by a Federal Reserve move to stop the credit crunch, the U.S. st..
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BusinessWeek
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Will the February employment report confirm the Street's recession fears? Action Economics sees modest growth in payrolls for the month
Plummeting consumer and factory sentiment readings in February have raised the ante for the month's U.S. employment..
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MSNBC
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Job growth is faltering, consumer confidence plunging. The fallout from the worst housing slump in a quarter-century grows. Wherever you look, the signs are unmistakable that the economy is in trouble.
Because of all the bad news, more and more economi..
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MSNBC
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The economic data are taking on a new urgency. Recently, a few of the economy's vital signs have been erratic. Most notably, a popular measure of service-sector activity plunged to an all-time low, and payrolls last month posted the first monthly decline..
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BusinessWeek
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With the economy teetering at the brink and markets swinging wildly, what should you do? Here is some classic advice for dealing with rocky financial times
For investors, the initial shock is starting to wear off after stock markets plunged and fears o..
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SF Gate
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Stocks were poised to open modestly higher Wednesday as uneasy investors sought to buy back into a market battered a day earlier by recession worries.
Better-than-expected profit results from Walt Disney Co. seemed to lift Wall Street's mood. Disney po..
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