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• Stocks slide after weekly employment reading
Oct. 2: Sen. John McCain addresses some of the bailout bill's tax breaks, such as the $192 million for rum producers, saying that the system in Washington needs to change. NEW YORK - Stocks fell in early trading Thursday after the government reported ...
• Economists getting gloomier about outlook
The latest evidence of the accelerating slowdown came Friday when employment data for September showed another 159,000 jobs were lost, bringing the total for the year to more the a quarter of a million. Ominously, the losses — which had been ...
• Panic-Proof Your Portfolio In 5 Minutes
Here in the U.S., bad employment numbers have many worried about their jobs. In the face of all that uncertainty, what should you do now? Five cures for statement shock When the world has you on the edge of panic, your best bet is to take a rational ...
• Jobs: Slammed by Gustav, Ike, and Boeing
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, as well as the Boeing (BA) strike, will conspire with an already-deteriorating labor market to depress U.S. payrolls in the September employment report, scheduled for release on Oct. 3, raising the risk of an outsize drop ...
• Financial fears trickle down to kids
Still, her daughter hasn’t forgotten about that hamster. “She has made it clear that the instant the employment situation is resolved, she expects to be taken to the pet store.” Melissa Schorr is a Boston-based freelancer who has written for ...