Louisville is one of the nation’s most polluted cities. Click the picture to see the rest. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — While dangerous pollutants still threaten the health of millions of Americans, the United States has made great strides in clearing the air, according to the American Lung Association. In its ...
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Wall Street investors returned from a long weekend Monday to face the potential consequences of last Friday’s downbeat jobs report.
The U.S. banking system remains exposed to Europe, but stress tests conducted by the Fed found most banks could weather a severe recession triggered by the debt crisis, Bernanke told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “Although a blow up in Europe would be very costly to the American ...
Several pages of a government report on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were heavily blacked-out. A simmering debate on Capitol Hill over how to help more than six million Americans struggling to save their home from foreclosure took a strange twist Wednesday. The redactions were made at the request of FHFA “and/or” Freddie Mac, ...
Dmitry Kostyukov for the International Herald Tribune Irina Prokhorova, a sister of Russian billionaire and President candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, in her office in 2011.
NEW YORK — Stocks have proven the naysayers wrong so far in 2012. And the February jobs report could be just the ticket to keep the bulls going this week. The five-month stock rally has been built on a string of improving economic data that suggests U.S. corporate profit ...
U.S. stocks slipped Wednesday as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments were viewed as a bit more hawkish, but reports suggesting more improvement in the economy curbed losses. The three major U.S. stock indexes ended lower, snapping a four-day streak of gains. Still, the broader market, as measured by ...
Stocks finished the week mixed Friday as the Dow Jones industrial average flirted again with 13,000 before turning negative in late afternoon trading. According to preliminary calculations, the Dow finished down 2.05 points, or 0.02 percent, to 12,982.64. The S&P 500 rose 2.26, or 0.17 percent, to 1,365.72. The Nasdaq ...
By Edward Krudy, Reuters Investors largely took a wait-and-see approach on Thursday as U.S. stocks ended little changed ahead of Friday’s key employment report, but tech shares rose after strong earnings from chipmaker Qualcomm. Recent economic data suggesting the economy is on a slow but steady path to recovery has ...
Job seekers like these in Washington D.C. may be looking for a while longer. Planned job cuts for the month of January totaled 53,486, according to Challenger report. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The U.S.
The Supreme Court recently blocked a California law that would require slaughterhouses to immediately euthanize animals too sick to walk, Reuters reported Jan. 23. The National Meat Association sued to block the California law, and U.S. justices ruled that federal, not state laws, set the standard for meat safety.
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By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer The government offered fresh data Tuesday showing that the job market is gradually improving. But there still aren’t enough jobs to go around. Even as hiring picked up in November, the number of jobs openings declined, according the Labor Departments’ monthly Job Openings and ...
Consumer credit in November expanded by the most since 2001, rising $20.37 billion after increasing a revised $6.02 billion in October, a Federal Reserve report showed on Monday. That was nearly three times the median forecast in a Reuters poll for a $7.0 billion gain in outstanding consumer credit. Nonrevolving ...
Stocks closed Thursday mixed after falling sharply at the open. Investors weighed renewed concern about Europe against the latest encouraging report about the U.S. job market. The Dow Jones industrial average lost as much as 134 points but at the close was down only about 3 points to 12,415.70. The ...
With pressure on governments to cut spending and the European debt crisis still unresolved, financial and government jobs are likely to continue to struggle in 2012. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Planned job cuts dropped in December but were up 14% overall for 2011, according to a report from outplacement consulting ...
Stocks closed slightly higher Wednesday after a big gain to open the trading year. Specialty stores such as Bed Bath & Beyond rose after a report that mall shopping was strong in the days after Christmas. Bank stocks, health care companies and utilities fell slightly. But nothing moved much. Investors ...
