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62,000 jobs lost in June
McClatchy-TribuneThe economy is likely to keep stumbling at least through the rest of the year, analysts agreed yesterday, after a disappointing government report showed that payroll jobs fell by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of job losses. "More job losses...Tags: Federal Reserve, Moody's Corporation, Inflation and Deflation, Stocks, Credit Ratings
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62,000 jobs lost, off nearly half-million for year
AP Economics WriterThe nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June, a storm of pink slips drenching this year's July Fourth holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and leaving thousands more worried about the future. Weighed down by energy prices and the housing...Tags: Commodity Markets, Fourth of July, Layoffs and Downsizing, AAA, Federal Reserve
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Wall Street firms reduce, banks step up Fed loans
AP Economics WriterWall Street companies sharply scaled back their borrowing from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over the past week while commercial banks boosted it slightly. The report, released by the Fed Thursday, offered mixed signals about credit...Tags: Mortgages, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Loans, Auction Service, Federal Reserve
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62,000 pink slips in June; nearly a half-million for year
The Associated PressThe nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June, a storm of pink slips drenching this year's July Fourth holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and leaving thousands more worried about the future. Weighed down by energy prices and the housing...Tags: Chrysler LLC, Layoffs and Downsizing, Federal Reserve, American Airlines, Inc., Inflation and Deflation
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Fed is bit player in global economy
The business press paints the Federal Reserve as omnipotent. Maybe once it was. But events are likely to prove it has lost some of its mojo. The nation's central bank controls a smaller piece of the global economy than in the last severe recession, in...Tags: Federal Reserve, Inflation and Deflation, Lisa Madigan, Money and Monetary Policy, Bonds
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It's a 'Murphy's Law' economy
MarketWatchIt's all too clear that the economy is in a rough patch. The dollar's weak, energy and food costs are high, the stock market is down, oil is at record levels and housing values have lost years of gains. What's next? Marshall Loeb, MarketWatch senior...Tags: Stock Broking, Federal Reserve, Inflation and Deflation, Green and Hybrid Vehicles, Elections
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Expecting inflation?
It's the job of the Federal Reserve Board to ride herd on inflation. If it lets the supply of money grow too rapidly, by keeping interest rates too low for too long, prices will jump across the board, with harmful effects on the economy. Anyone who...Tags: Federal Reserve, Inflation and Deflation, Petroleum Industry
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ALL BUSINESS: Job cut surge keeps wage growth low
AP Business WriterAll those job cuts at automakers, newspapers and even Starbucks are hard to stomach. But in a roundabout way, they may actually help the economy a bit. No, that isn't a misprint. The story here solely has to do with how soaring layoffs impact wage...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Federal Reserve, Inflation and Deflation, Starbucks Corporation, Petroleum Industry
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Fed keeps interest rate at 2 percent
The Federal Reserve, navigating treacherous economic waters, decided on Wednesday to leave a key interest rate unchanged, bringing an end to a string of consecutive rate cuts. The central bank announced that it was keeping the federal funds rate, the...Tags: Federal Reserve
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Fed mulls easing bank investment
Bloomberg NewsFederal Reserve officials are reviewing regulations that limit investment firms' stakes in banks in an effort to increase the flow of capital into the U.S. banking system. The central bank "is taking a look at these rules with an eye toward whether there...Tags: Banking, Federal Reserve, Investments
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