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The storm that blanketed the Midwest earlier this week, dumping more than a foot of snow in Kansas and forcing hundreds of flights to be canceled, is now headed for New England. For Boston, it's the third straight weekend of major snow.
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*Dollar on track to rise toward 100- yen mark. NEW YORK, April 5- The U.S. dollar weakened against most major currencies on Friday, dropping to a two-week low against the euro, as worse-than-expected jobs data raised concerns that the pace of recovery in the American labor market has slowed.
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NEW YORK, April 5- Major stock markets tumbled, the dollar fell and U.S. U.S. employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March, adding just 88,000 nonfarm jobs, the Labor Department said, below an expected 200,000. The jobless rate ticked a tenth of a point lower to 7.6 percent, but largely due to people dropping out of the work force.
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NEW YORK, April 5- A federal appeals court rejected UBS AG's bid to dismiss a U.S. regulator's lawsuit seeking to hold the Swiss bank responsible for losses on mortgage securities at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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NEW YORK, April 5- Major stock markets tumbled, the dollar fell, while Treasury prices rallied on Friday after a much weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs report added to fears the U.S. economic recovery was losing steam.
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NEW YORK, April 5- U.S. The jobs news when combined with weaker global equity markets, the Bank of Japan's recently announced monetary stimulus program, and escalating tension in the Korean peninsula encouraged investors to buy bonds, pushing yields lower. "
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NEW YORK, April 5- The U.S. dollar weakened against most currencies on Friday, hitting nearly two week lows versus the euro, as weaker-than-expected jobs data raised concerns that the pace of recovery in the American labor market has slowed down.
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HARTFORD, Conn.-- Gun owners and retailers in Connecticut were sorting through confusion Thursday over the implementation of the state's sweeping new gun control law, which bars the sale of more than 100 types of firearms and magazines that hold 10 or more rounds.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md.-- Maryland's already-strong gun laws will become among the strictest in the nation with a measure passed by the General Assembly Thursday, sending the bill to the Democratic governor who proposed the legislation in the aftermath of December's massacre at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.
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Dannel P. Malloy signed into law sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines Thursday in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, a bipartisan deal that gun control proponents hope will spark action in Washington and state legislatures across the country.
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NEW YORK-- New York City's mayor met Thursday with the parents of a Chicago girl killed just days after performing at President Barack Obama's inaugural festivities, then suggested that places interested in reducing gun violence might want to emulate the Big Apple, where studies have found teenagers are less likely to carry weapons than in any other major U.S. city.
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*Dollar on track to rise toward 100- yen mark. NEW YORK, April 5- The U.S. dollar weakened against most major currencies on Friday, hitting nearly two-week lows against the euro, as weaker-than-expected jobs data raised concerns that the pace of recovery in the American labor market has slowed.
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NEW YORK, April 5- Major stock markets tumbled, the dollar fell and U.S. U.S. employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March, adding just 88,000 nonfarm jobs, the Labor Department said, below an expected 200,000. The jobless rate ticked a tenth of a point lower to 7.6 percent, but largely due to people dropping out of the work force.
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SEOUL/ WASHINGTON- The United States said it would soon send a missile defence system to Guam to defend it from North Korea, as the U.S. military adjusts to what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called a "real and clear danger" from Pyongyang.
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SAN FRANCISCO-- The National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers are to blame for the "disconnect" between the broad public support for gun control and the reluctance in Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, U.S. My view is they shouldn't go up to the Senate if they are unwilling to stand up and vote. "
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HARTFORD, Conn.-- World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. and the widow of performer Owen Hart have settled a lawsuit over royalties and the use of Hart's image. WWE chief executive Vince McMahon, his wife and former CEO Linda McMahon, and the Stamford, Conn., company, confirmed the settlement.
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From Colorado to Connecticut, a handful of very different states have advanced new gun control laws over opposition that has made such legislation a struggle nationally and a non-starter in most legislatures. All three helped drive new gun control measures in New York, Colorado and in Connecticut, where Gov.
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NEW YORK, April 3- Prices for U.S. We are revising our forecast for March nonfarm payrolls down 40,000 to 160,000, "said Joseph LaVorgna, managing director and chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities. Such views were "bullish for bonds, which are testing the low end of their recent yield range," said Jake Lowery, Treasury trader at ING in Atlanta.
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NEW YORK, April 3- Former broker Thomas Conradt pleaded guilty Wednesday to insider trading charges related to trades he made ahead of a $1.2 billion acquisition by International Business Machines Corp in 2009..
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NEW YORK, April 3- Prices for U.S. We are revising our forecast for March nonfarm payrolls down 40,000 to 160,000, "said Joseph LaVorgna, managing director and chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities. Such views were "bullish for bonds, which are testing the low end of their recent yield range," said Jake Lowery, Treasury trader at ING in Atlanta, Georgia.
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NEW YORK, April 3- Former broker Thomas Conradt pleaded guilty Wednesday to insider trading charges related to trades he made ahead of a $1.2 billion acquisition by International Business Machines Corp in 2009..