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There are a lot of ways to describe what the Fed did today: it took the rate-cut punch bowl off the dining room table, but didn't pour out the punch. It took a baby-step towards neutral, not a grown-up step. That means it preserved the ability to cut if it needs to.
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“The news on the economy is going to be pretty much unrelentingly bad in the next few months,” says one economist, who thinks the Fed may keep cutting after today.
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The full statement released by the Federal Open Market Committee after its meetings held from April 29-30 on interest rate policy.
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The Federal Reserve trimmed interest rates to 2% but left markets guessing about whether further cuts would be needed.
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Even though the economy continued to grow in the first quarter, many economists believe we're already in a recession.
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“The news on the economy is going to be pretty much unrelentingly bad in the next few months,” says one economist, who adds there’s good chance the Fed will keep cutting rates after Wednesday's meeting.
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The bruised economy limped through the first quarter of this year at only 0.6 percent as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.
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U.S. private-sector employers unexpectedly added 10,000 jobs in April according to a private report by ADP Employer Services released on Wednesday.
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As the U.S. Treasury races to get rebate checks to households, higher gasoline prices are blunting the economic impact of the $152 billion stimulus package.
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The US economy indeed has entered into a recession, even if the traditional indicators aren't showing it yet, billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett said.
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The stock market will likely start the week on a hesitant note with Wall Street facing the first Federal Reserve interest-rate decision in many months not knowing that a cut is likely guaranteed.
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If the U.S. Federal Reserve wants to restrain oil and food prices and help downtrodden consumers, the best thing it can do is stop cutting interest rates.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry asked the government to cut "skyrocketing" food prices by waiving half of the renewable fuel standard for ethanol made from grain.
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Earnings news dominated Friday's European trade with Sweden's Ericsson's shares up more than 12 percent after the company reported better-than-expected results.
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President George W. Bush said on Friday that the U.S. economy is in a slowdown but added that tax rebates should help pull activity out of the slump.
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Chief executives from Europe discussed earnings, opportunities and challenges their companies face in 2008 with CNBC Europe Friday.
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Some big companies report tomorrow that will give more clarity on the health of advertising and technology spending, and the health of the European jobs market
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Forget job perks like access to the company car or an expense account. Keeping and recruiting employees might be as easy as keeping the bathrooms clean.
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The United States is in a recession but the downturn is expected to be mild because consumer spending is not expected to fall precipitously, Standard & Poor's said Thursday.
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The number of workers filing initial claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell by 33,000 last week though workers remaining on jobless benefits continued at a high level.