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The skies over the White House were overcast Friday as President Obama and several prominent members of his economic team ent...

The stock markets topped off their best week in a month Friday as the latest jobs report calmed fears that the sputtering economy is headed toward a double-dip recession....

Treasury prices fall on unemployment report(AP)–5 hours agoNEW YORK — Treasurys took a slide on Friday after the latest Labor Department report showed private employers added more jobs than economists e...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- "Stock prices" and "unemployment" are trending topics on Google(GOOG) and Yahoo!(YHOO) today as stocks rise on better-than-expected labor market data. The Labor Department reported that employers ...

But the major averages backed away from their highest levels after a report showed service sector activity slowed last month. After beginning the session with a gain of 100 points, the Dow Jones ...

Americans have not lost their will to spend, according to a modest and surprising bump in retail sales last month and the number o...

I highly recommend that anyone with interest in economics read the full text of the speech (PDF) Christina Romer, outgoing head of the Council of Economic Advisers, gave yeste...

Zacks Equity Research, On Monday August 16, 2010, 8:27 am EDT U.S. regulators on Friday shuttered Palos Heights, Illinois-based Palos Bank and Trust Company, pushing up U.S. bank failures to 110 so far in 2010. t
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ReutersJapan consumer prices fall, deflation to persistReutersTOKYO, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer prices marked their 17th straight month of annual declines in July in a sign that deflation remains deeply entrenched, boding ill for a fragi...

eWorld Post (blog)Ohio Unemployment Rate Prompts Release of Foreclosure Prevention FundsThe Epoch TimesUnemployed people look over a job listing board at The Montgomery County Job Center in Dayton, Ohio. Currently, the unemployment rate in ...0 million to...