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Economy Watch: September Jobs Report: Better Than Nothing
Recent employment trends haven’t been particularly positive. Since April, payroll employment has increased by an average of 72,000 jobs per month, compared with an average increase of 161,000 during the seven months before this April.
‘Economy Watch’ Podcast with Dees Stribling: September’s Job Numbers
Dees Stribling discusses the state of the economy for the week ending 10/7.
Economy Watch: ADP Reports Middling Job Growth in September
According to ADP, private U.S. businesses hired a net of 91,000 workers in September, a little up from August’s revised figure of 89,000.
‘Economy Watch’ Podcast with Dees Stribling: Good News on Jobs, But Not Housing
Dees Stribling’s take on the economy for the week ending 9/30.
Economy Watch: Among Euro-Troubles, Ireland Not Doing Badly
Are there grounds for optimism about the European economy? Maybe in Ireland. The Irish economy posted a 1.6 percent quarterly GDP gain from the first to the second quarter of 2011.
Economy Watch: Home Prices See Monthly Uptick But Annual Decline
According to the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller home-price indexes released on Tuesday, U.S. home prices were up in July for the fourth month in a row.
Economy Watch: New Homes Sales Cruise Along Bottom
New home sales dropped 2.3 percent from July to August to an annualized rate of 295,000 units, according to the U.S. Census Bureau on Monday.
Economy Watch: What Next for the Euro-Zone?
Various Euro-zone policymakers, perhaps embarrassed that even the U.S. Treasury Secretary can take them to task for not dealing with their debt crisis any better than they have, met in Washington over the weekend to hash things out.
PODCAST: Economy Watch Weekly with Dees Stribling
Dees Stribling discusses the state of the economy for the week ending 9/23.
Economy Watch: Markets Go Chicken Little
Wall Street was in full Chicken Little mode on Thursday, worried that the economic sky was falling. And maybe it is. No less an authority on economic conditions than the Federal Open Market Committee said in its Wednesday statement–along with something about the Twist–that there are “significant downside risks to the economic outlook,” which is Fed polite-ese for “don’t let the sky hit you on its way down.”