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• Oil prices drop below $40 on weak demand
Oil analyst Stephen Schork notes in his daily report how weak the economy has become, especially in the auto and steel industries. The Detroit Three automakers have announced extended holiday shutdowns. Chrysler has said it is closing all 30 of its ...
• Forbes Ranks Pittsburgh Tops In Job Growth
Ingram reported that the think tanks and researchers who recruit businesses to this region say it goes beyond the flagship industries. Pittsburgh has one of the most diversified groups of industries in the country, which is what the city has in ...
• Sun drops after Goldman adds stock to sell list
Even with Thursday's drop, Sun's shares are up about 40 percent since the beginning of December. Sun's customers, Bailey noted, are heavily concentrated in the financial services, telecom and manufacturing industries, which have been particularly hurt ...
• Obama marks break from Bush on intel
Five hundred and twenty-four thousand jobs were lost in December across nearly all major American industries. That means that our economy lost jobs in all 12 months of 2008 and that nearly 2.6 million jobs lost last year amount to the single worst ...
• Services sector contraction slows in Dec.
The report is based on a survey of the institute's members in industries including hotels, retail and health care. It covers such indicators as new orders, employment inventories and backlog. Prices continued to fall, with the prices component of the ...