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• Jobs data highlight voters' top concern
Friday’s report on the job market is expected to show further losses in August, as the economy ranks as the most important issue on voters’ minds. With the employment outlook sluggish at best for the rest of the year, the issue will likely remain ...
• U.S. unemployment rate hits a five-year high
With the employment situation deteriorating, there’s growing worry that consumers will recoil, throwing the economy into a tailspin later this year or early next year.
• Politics aside, would you hire Sarah Palin?
Nancy Cooper, an employment lawyer at Garvey Schubert Barer in Portland, Ore. : All the things that are forbidden in an employment interview are fair game in the public scrutiny of a political candidate.
• Stocks tank — Dow ends day nearly 350 down
The market was already nervous as it waited for the government to release its August employment report on Friday. So news from the nation’s major retailers that shoppers curtailed their spending last month due to higher gas and food prices came as ...
• Oil falls to five-month low on demand worries
There's been a terrific amount of growing concern about the outlook for demand globally," said John Kilduff, senior vice president of risk management at MF Global LLC. "Today's employment report emboldened that concern.