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• U.S. unemployment rate hits a five-year high
Previously, the government reported job losses at 51,000 in each of those months. So far this year, job losses totaled 605,000. The latest snapshot was worse than economists were forecasting.
• Greenspan: Fed is not a ‘magical piggy bank’
WASHINGTON - Troubled by the Bear Stearns debacle, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is advocating a new way of dealing with government bailouts of companies whose sudden collapse could wreak havoc on the country's economic and financial ...
• Cheney blasts Russia's 'threat of tyranny'
The show of support was important for Yushchenko's Western-leaning government, which has become increasingly nervous about its relations with Moscow.
• Stocks open down after latest jobs report
NEW YORK - Wall Street opened lower Friday after the government disappointed investors with news that the economy shed jobs for the eighth straight month in August and at a faster-than-expected pace. The Labor Department said payrolls shrank by 84 ...
• Corpses surface in Haiti as floods recede
Haiti’s government has few resources to help. Rescue convoys have been blocked by floodwaters, although the U.N. World Food Program said Thursday it was sending a food-laden boat to Gonaives from the capital, Port-au-Prince, and would set up a base ...