Economic Measures
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Friday's GDP report is expected to show the economy shrank further in the second quarter, but many economists believe the recession has finally hit bottom.
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After a year and a half of declining payrolls, economists are more certain there will be modest job creation than either a "jobless recovery" or an outright jobs boom.
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Wall Street's bull just won't give up, even in the face of crumbling support from oil and the dollar.
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The stock market spent July on a "sugar high," rising to levels not justified by an economy that is still limping along, Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC.
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Another flood of earnings news will help guide Tuesday's market, after stocks held steady Monday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Sunday that he had to "hold my nose" over last year's taxpayer-financed bailouts of big financial companies but argued that the action had to be taken to avoid a major meltdown of the U.S. financial system and the broader economy.
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"The nosedive is over," says one economist about Friday's second-quarter GDP report. "Nevertheless, you come out of this looking past the second quarter with a very uneven recovery picture."
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New-home sales rose by the largest amount in nearly nine years last month, in another sign the housing market is finally bouncing back from the worst downturn in decades.
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Corning stock softened in early morning trading despite reporting better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Monday.
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Corporate earnings will serve as a tailwind for the stock market in the week ahead, but gains could be constrained after an 11 percent run in just two weeks.
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States are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece on special legislative sessions whose chief purpose, ironically, is to trim more funding from their eroding budgets.
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A federal minimum wage increase that takes effect Friday could prolong the recession, some economists say, by forcing small businesses to lay off the same workers that the pay hike passed in better times was meant to help.
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Congress has increased the cost of unskilled labor by 10.7% in the middle of the worst recession since the early 1980s...It is unclear how this is supposed to help the economy – unless you are Labor Secretary Solis or the Economic Policy Institute, writes William Dunkelberg, Economics Professor at Temple University.
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People assume a dismal economy means good times for repo men. But as the creditors who hire them aim to cut costs, these automotive bounty hunters are struggling along with the rest of American business.
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Thursday's continued string of better than expected earnings reports plus a better number on existing home sales encouraged the bulls and scared the shorts. 3M, Qualcomm, Bristol Meyers, Ford and McDonald's all did better than expected and they represent quite a cross section of industries. But I am still troubled by the fact that revenue growth is lacking and the better earnings are coming from cost cutting which can only go on for so long. I remain cautious.
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Stocks could stumble Friday as investors reassess the market's rapid run, and declines in American Express and Microsoft weigh on the Dow.
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The busiest day yet for second quarter earnings reports could put some juice back into the stock market Thursday.
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You know the sound that a large truck makes when it backs up? Beep-beep-beep. Well that sounds like what's coming out of Congress since the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it didn't see any savings in the health care proposals but rather an increase in the deficit of a potential $230 billion.
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Despite Dennis Kneale calling the end of the recession, we may be getting ahead of ourselves with talk of "recovery". It's possible we're finding a bottom, but no one knows whether growth will return this quarter or next.
