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By MARTIN CRUTSINGER and JEANNINE AVERSA AP Economics Writers FILE - In this April 24, 2008 file photo, the Pioneer oil refinery, where crude oil is transferred into gasoline and other petroleum products, is silhouetted against...
WASHINGTON - Industrial production edged up 0.1 per cent last month, the Fed reported Tuesday. Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight, said he expects GDP to be trimmed to around 2.8 per cent for the third...
by: Harlan Levy November 17, 2009 | about: Nariman Behravesh is the chief economist at IHS Gobal Insight, the $100 million consulting company that provides economic, financial, and political analysis worldwide. HL: In light of...
WASHINGTON: Federal Reserve chairman Ben S Bernanke has succeeded in returning the US economy to growth after the longest contraction in more than six decades. So far Wall Street, not Main Street, has been the primary...
Here's one way to deal with the brutal U.S. job market: Leave the country. With the nation's unemployment rate at a 26-year-high of 10.2%, more Americans are hunting for, and landing, work overseas, according to staffing...
Published: Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 9:03 p.m. MST The trade deficit in the United States widened more than expected in September, to $36.5 billion, in part because of an increase in oil prices, the Commerce Department said Friday....
The dollar edged up in trading against other currencies Thursday as the Chinese government appeared to signal that it may be willing to let the value of its currency rise. The United States and other countries would benefit...
An unusual alliance of conservatives and liberals is pushing to break up or downsize banks deemed "too big to fail," rather than create a new regulatory regime led by the Federal Reserve to try to keep them from getting into...
On Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith talked to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about Monday's stock market rally and wondered: "What was the reaction at the White House yesterday when the stock market...
US consumer spending, a critical growth driver, fell for the first time in five months in September, official data showed amid fears the US economy may slow just after exiting recession. Household spending fell $47.2 billion or...
