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• Where Is the Dow Headed Next: 13K or 15K? Thursday, 4 Oct 2007 | 11:14 AM ET

  With the Dow Jones Industrial Average hovering around 14,000, the question is where the blue-chip heads next: 13,000 or 15,000?

• Take Your Position: Jobs Friday Thursday, 4 Oct 2007 | 11:08 AM ET

  The August jobs report spooked the market last month when it came in unexpectedly negative. That’s makes this Friday that much more important for stocks when the September jobs report rolls in. What's the trade to put on Thursday, ahead of these crucial numbers?

• Economy Weakens Further Ahead of Jobs Report Thursday, 4 Oct 2007 | 10:31 AM ET

  

  The economy continued to show further signs of weakness ahead of Friday's widely anticipated report on September job growth.

• Credit Solution 'Hopes' Boosting Stocks Thursday, 4 Oct 2007 | 8:59 AM ET

  Stocks are striking a slightly positive tone as investors increasingly believe the credit crunch is being worked out. Tomorrow's jobs report for September remains a top focus. The U.S. dollar is barely changed against most currencies but slightly weaker against the euro and British pound after the European Central Bank and the Bank of England left rates unchanged this morning, as expected.

• Interstate Bakeries Gets Strategy Extension            Thursday, 4 Oct 2007 | 6:16 AM ET

  A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday gave Interstate Bakeries and its largest union 30 more days to either work out their differences or develop plans for the company's future, including a possible sale.

• Stocks Close Lower Amid Broad Decline in Tech Wednesday, 3 Oct 2007 | 4:57 PM ET

  Stocks ended lower on Wednesday as strong manufacturing data released this morning offset broad declines in the tech sector. "From a technical perspective, seeing this kind of pullback is not bad, you want to see consolidation and see some base build," said Sean Brodrick, senior commodities analyst at MoneyandMarkets.com.

• Private Sector Adds 58,000 Jobs; Layoffs Slow Wednesday, 3 Oct 2007 | 8:53 AM ET

  

  The U.S. private sector increased hiring at a moderate pace for a third straigth month in September, according to the ADP employment report released Wednesday.

• Credit Suisse Cuts 170 Investment Bank Jobs Wednesday, 3 Oct 2007 | 6:05 AM ET

  

  Credit Suisse Group will cut 170 jobs in its investment banking division, or nearly 1% of the unit's employees.  This comes after  Morgan Stanley said it would restructure its residential mortgage business and cut about 600 employees .

• Morgan Stanley to Cut 600 Mortgage Jobs Tuesday, 2 Oct 2007 | 2:39 PM ET

  Morgan Stanley said Tuesday it will restructure its residential mortgage business and cut about 600 employees in a move that "reflects current market conditions."

• Pending Home Sales Skid In August to Record Low Tuesday, 2 Oct 2007 | 11:30 AM ET

  

  Pending sales of previously owned homes fell by a larger-than-expected 6.5% in August as more borrowers seeking home loans were turned away by cautious lenders, a real estate trade group said on Tuesday.

• Euro Zone Wholesale Inflation Rises as Expected Tuesday, 2 Oct 2007 | 5:10 AM ET

  A fall in energy costs capped euro zone producer price growth in August despite a jump in non-durable goods, while unemployment stayed at record lows, data showed on Tuesday.

• GM Grants U.S. Job Security Guarantees to UAW Friday, 28 Sep 2007 | 3:16 PM ET

  The United Auto Workers won guarantees in its tentative contract agreement with General Motors that many new products would be built at U.S. plants to save jobs, union President Ron Gettelfinger said Friday.

• Recession Worries Grow, But Signals Are Mixed Friday, 28 Sep 2007 | 1:57 PM ET

  

  Recession talk is heating up as the slumping U.S. housing market threatens to shackle free-spending consumers, yet stocks remain near record highs, indicating that many investors see little cause for alarm.

• Fed's Lockhart: Slower Growth Worse Threat Than Inflation Friday, 28 Sep 2007 | 10:42 AM ET

  Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart said on Friday that market turmoil could hit the U.S. economy and that a moderation in inflation gave the Fed room to cut interest rates last week.

• Goldman Cuts GDP Forecasts for U.S., Japan and Europe Friday, 28 Sep 2007 | 8:06 AM ET

  Investment bank Goldman Sachs has slashed its forecasts for economic growth in the United States, Japan and Europe, joining numerous forecasters who are abruptly changing view since the start of a global credit crunch.

• GM Could Get Labor Pay Savings from UAW Deal: WSJ Friday, 28 Sep 2007 | 6:50 AM ET

  General Motors would be able to buy out as many as 24,000 UAW workers and replace them with lower-paid hires under a tentative contract agreement, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Friday.

• Fed's Mishkin Says Inflation Is Low Thanks to Policy Friday, 28 Sep 2007 | 4:01 AM ET

  Tight central bank monetary policies and well-grounded expectations of low inflation are to thank for low inflation in recent years, not globalization, Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin said on Thursday.

• Japan Output Jumps, Inflation Falls for 7th Month Thursday, 27 Sep 2007 | 10:13 PM ET

  Japanese industrial production jumped in August and is seen rising further despite global market turmoil, while core consumer prices fell from a year earlier for the seventh straight month as expected.

• Economy Grew 3.8% in Spring; Jobless Claims Tumble Thursday, 27 Sep 2007 | 9:05 AM ET

  

  The economy rebounded with a good head of steam in the spring before a credit crisis raised new fears about longer-term business health.

• Durable-Goods Orders Take Biggest Dive in 7 Months Wednesday, 26 Sep 2007 | 10:14 AM ET

  

  New orders for costly U.S.-manufactured goods dropped at the sharpest rate in seven months during August as demand fell across nearly every major category.