Obama call for manufacturing revival a tough goal (AP)

news 10-FEB-12

Incomes up strong 0.5 pct., consumer spending flat (AP)

news 30-JAN-12

Wall St. caps stellar week on drop in jobless rate

reuters 03-DEC-11

U.S. Adds a Modest 80,000 Jobs; Rate Drops to 9%

IHT 05-NOV-11

U.S. credit downgrade pummels market

washtimes 09-AUG-11

Obama: 'Make your voice heard' on debt crisis

cnn 26-JUL-11

Unemployment rises to 9.2% amid weak June job gains

latimes 08-JUL-11

Durable Goods Orders in May Beat Forecast

IHT 24-JUN-11

Stocks sink as banks slash jobs outlook (Reuters)

news 01-JUN-11

Consumers hold back growth, rebound seen muted

reuters 26-MAY-11

US private sector gives big jobs boost in April (AFP)

news 08-MAY-11

Obama mixing politics and policy on West Coast (AP)

news 20-APR-11

China tees up G20 showdown with US

ft 05-NOV-10

Economy adds 151,000 jobs in October

reuters 05-NOV-10

Obama notes private sector job growth, rips GOP

cnn 08-OCT-10

US unemployment expected to rise

kuwaittimes 04-SEP-10

Instant View: New home sales at record low in July (Reuters)

news 25-AUG-10

US home sales plunge to 15-year low

aljazeera 24-AUG-10

Unemployment Rate in July Unchanged at 9.5%

CBSnews 06-AUG-10

Jobless claims fall, manufacturing stumbles (Reuters)

news 15-JUL-10

Greece bail-out moves shake markets

channel4news 07-MAY-10

China's Hu tells Obama he will not be pushed on the yuan

telegraph 13-APR-10

Report: Job losses worse than known

washtimes 05-FEB-10

U.S. wage gains hit 27-year low

CBC 29-JAN-10

Video: Black Friday Frenzy

CBSnews 28-NOV-09

US retail sales rise 1.4% in October

ft 16-NOV-09

Lex: US unemployment

ft 06-NOV-09

Job competition toughest since recession began

NewsJang 11-OCT-09

'Clunkers' Program Lifts Consumer Spending, but Family Incomes Still Stagnant

WashingtonPost_B 29-AUG-09

World stocks rise on hopes for consumer recovery (AP)

news 28-AUG-09

US interest rates remain on hold

bbc 12-AUG-09

Finally, charting the recovery's course (Reuters)

news 05-JUL-09

— up on profit taking before US payrolls

dailytimesPK 03-JUL-09

US government bond yields surge

ft 10-JUN-09

Jobless Rate Jumps To 9.4%; Layoffs Slow

CBSnews 06-JUN-09

US trade gap widens in March

ft 12-MAY-09

New report bolsters US housing hopes

ft 04-MAY-09

US recession pain goes on as rise in jobless hits 25-year high

sundaytimes 04-APR-09

Markets Rise for Fourth Day in a Row

WashingtonPost_B 03-APR-09

US unemployment rate rises to 8.5% in March

irishtimes 03-APR-09

Customs office: Beijing's external trade down 37% in Jan.-Feb.

xinhuanet_en 28-MAR-09

U.S. trade deficit continues to shrink

washtimes 14-MAR-09

Relentless Layoffs Continue to Spread Misery Across U.S.

ABCnews 06-MAR-09

U.S. factory orders fall for a sixth month

IHT 26-FEB-09

Obama to sign stimulus package

channel4news 15-FEB-09

Congress approves $787bn economic stimulus bill$

sundaytimes 14-FEB-09

January worst month in 34 years for US job losses

irishtimes 07-FEB-09

US job losses accelerate

euronews 06-FEB-09

U.S. shares slide after GDP report

IHT 30-JAN-09

Steel industry, in a slump, looks to U.S. stimulus

IHT 02-JAN-09

Stock markets mixed on U.S. grim news

cnn 02-DEC-08

Europe mulls spending hikes as world factories slow (Reuters)

news 01-DEC-08

Wall Street shakes off gloom in mixed day for global stocks (AFP)

news 27-NOV-08

Data shows sharper US contraction

bbc 25-NOV-08

U.S. stock futures dip as auto hearings continue

theglobeandmail 19-NOV-08

Lawmakers rip 'bait-switch' banks bailout

washtimes 15-NOV-08

Retail Sales Record Sharp Fall

NPRnews 14-NOV-08

Obama set for first post-election news address

RTERadio 07-NOV-08

John McCain backs down to attend debate

thetimes 26-SEP-08

U.S. Trade Deficit Soars; Oil Imports Rise

CBSnews 11-SEP-08

Weak dollar is a tonic

guardian 29-AUG-08

Clinton likely to release her delegates to Obama

cnn 25-AUG-08

Despite tough talk, Bernanke Fed unlikely to boost rates

AsiaOne 22-JUN-08

Trade gaps widens in April as oil prices surge (Reuters)

news 10-JUN-08

Oil hike sparks 'serious concern'

bbc 07-JUN-08

Worst may be over for US: economists

khaleejtimes 18-MAY-08

U.S. Economy Sheds Jobs As Costs Go Up

CBSnews 01-MAY-08

Fed may cut rates

cnn 30-APR-08

U.S. economy nearly sputtered out at end of 2007

theglobeandmail 27-MAR-08

EU launches investigation into US Internet gambling laws

antiguanews 12-MAR-08

Employers slash jobs by most in 5 years

msnbc 09-MAR-08

Fed to Make $200 Billion Available to Lenders

WashingtonPost_B 08-MAR-08

Dangerous cracks appearing in job market (AP)

news 08-MAR-08

Bush: 'It's clear our economy has slowed'

cnn 07-MAR-08

Dollar hits record lows against the euro

examiner 01-MAR-08

Economy skids to near halt (AP)

news 28-FEB-08

Retail sales picked up in December

RTERadio 15-FEB-08

Congress sends rebate measure to Bush's desk

cnn 08-FEB-08

Time for a Recession? Cause for Concern

ABCnews 06-JAN-08

US creates fewer jobs

bbc 04-JAN-08

Market slips as investors take profits (Reuters)

news 31-DEC-07

Wall Street awaits 2008 for jobs data (AP)

news 30-DEC-07

Fed cuts key interest rate

cnn 11-DEC-07

Rise in US jobs signals credit crisis contained

ft 10-DEC-07

Bernanke's views's leave investors unsatisfied

TurkishDailyNews 10-NOV-07

Trade deficit declines in September (AP)

news 09-NOV-07

US recession fears ease as employers create more jobs

kuwaittimes 07-OCT-07

Fed ready to act against housing-led downturn

ft 08-SEP-07

Bernanke fuels hope of interest rate cuts

ft 01-SEP-07

Bernanke: Fed ready to act

cnn 31-AUG-07

Growth in exports boosts US trade forecasts

ft 13-JUL-07

US consumer, construction spending rise: commerce dept

dailytimesPK 31-MAR-07

Lex: Subprime contagion

ft 14-MAR-07

U.S. unemployment rate declines to 4.5 percent in February

peopledaily 10-MAR-07

Blow for America's hopes of recovery as growth slows

guardian 28-OCT-06

U.S. consumer spending up, biggest jump in 6 months

newsweek 31-AUG-06

Oil prices surge as BP shuts pipeline

ft 09-AUG-06

US trade deficit widens on oil price jump

ft 12-JUL-06

Global stocks tumble on rate fears

RSS 13-JUN-06

Wall Street licks its wounds

cnn 06-JUN-06

Plain-speaking Fed chairman sets scene fora pause for thought on monetary policy

ft 02-MAY-06

China agrees to boost piracy laws

newsweek 12-APR-06

Warm weather brings out the US shoppers

ft 15-FEB-06

Q&A: Neighbours' troubled ties

bbc 10-FEB-06

US economy creates 193,000 jobs in January

ft 03-FEB-06

US sees first productivity fall for five years

ft 03-FEB-06

US housing market starts to cool

ft 02-JAN-06

U.S. posts economic growth spurt

RSS 22-DEC-05

CHINA

ft 14-DEC-05

Wall Street steady ahead of Fed meeting

ft 13-DEC-05

Productivity staves off inflation fears

ft 07-DEC-05

Manufacturing demand surges in October

newsweek 06-DEC-05

Greenspan's last act at Fed: Ending era of cheap borrowing

IHT 03-NOV-05

Eurozone inflation dips to 2.5%

ft 29-OCT-05

U.S. Deficit Off 1.5 Pct. in 2nd Quarter

CBSnews 17-SEP-05

Costly fuel raises US inflation

bbc 16-AUG-05

Stocks Rally on Benign Inflation Data

CBSnews 18-MAY-05

Labour unveils enterprise manifesto

ananova 28-APR-05

Dollar weighed down by US rates

TheAustralian 22-MAR-05

Inflation feared to exceed target for 2005

russiajournal 01-MAR-05

Consumer Prices: Biggest Jump Since May

reuters 17-NOV-04

News Analysis: A first since Hoover in 1932

IHT 09-OCT-04

[-added]: I'm not sure why manufacturing rather than any other industry warrants tax incentives,

AP 10-FEB-12

[ said]: The vast majority of jobs in the future are going to be created in the service sector, not the manufacturing sector,

AP 10-FEB-12

[ said]: There are hints that a virtuous cycle may be building where employment, income and consumer spending move up together,

ibtimes 09-FEB-12

[ said]: His opponent can say what they’d like and how they’d react to an immediate crisis in the full knowledge that they won’t have to do it,

bloomberg 08-FEB-12

[ said]: The January figures were helped by exceptionally mild winter weather, but that does not remove the shine from a very encouraging report,

abs 04-FEB-12

[ said]: Consumers don't have much income growth, and to even achieve a 2 percent growth rate in spending in the fourth quarter, they had to run down their saving rate,

AP 28-JAN-12

[-said]: We are starting to see improvements in the housing market, and consumers are working down their debt levels,

AP 28-JAN-12

[ said]: We did have some relief on gasoline prices in the fourth quarter, but that didn’t cause people to go out and spend more vigorously,

IHT 28-JAN-12

[ said]: We’re recovering, but it’s a very long, slow, drawn-out process,

bloomberg 27-JAN-12

[ said]: This report is still encouraging,

IHT 06-JAN-12

[-says]: you could get a panic in the financial markets, and that would have repercussions for the U.S., because European banks would be unable to fulfill their obligations to U.S. banks.

npr 06-JAN-12

[ said]: The eurozone is the single biggest threat, not just from a eurozone recession. It's from the risk of recession combined with a eurozone financial crisis that develops into a major global financial crisis. In the worst case, it could be as bad as we saw in 2008, 2009,

voanews 31-DEC-11

[ said]: If it is a week or two, it is annoying but the impact would be fairly small,

ibtimes 21-DEC-11

[ said]: There is some thinking that the Fed could lower the discount rate following its move to bolster dollar funding for eurozone banks this month,

channelnewsasia 13-DEC-11

[ said]: It was a big week for equities, as markets became more optimistic about prospects for a resolution of the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis,

dailytimesPK 04-DEC-11

[ said]: It was a big week for equities, as markets became more optimistic about prospects for a resolution of the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis,

btimescom 04-DEC-11

[ said]: The big picture shows an economy that has picked up steam in the second half of the year,

btimescom 03-DEC-11

[ said]: The outlook ahead remains for modest growth, but risks remain to the downside without a convincing resolution of the euro zone crisis, which is conspicuously absent at present,

IHT 05-NOV-11

[ wrote]: The better growth performance in the third quarter doesn’t mean that the economy can’t ‘double-dip’ back into recession,

IHT 27-OCT-11

[ said]: The better growth performance in the third quarter doesn't mean that the economy can't 'double-dip' back into recession,

ibtimes 27-OCT-11

[ said]: Indications are that the third quarter is doing better than previously thought. We now anticipate third-quarter real G.D.P. growth of just above 2 percent,

IHT 30-SEP-11

[-says]: Up until now, the Europeans have been behind the curve all the way through.

npr 23-SEP-11

[ says]: He certainly is going back to the U.S. experience and saying you need to act fast on these things, you can't let events spin out of control,

npr 23-SEP-11

[-said]: You don't get any extra kick from those things. It just means you avoid the drag of their expiration,

cnn 07-SEP-11

[ said]: The kick to growth is going to be pretty small. It will add substantially less than 1% to GDP growth in 2012,

cnn 07-SEP-11

[ said]: The problem doesn't seem to be an upsurge in firings, since initial unemployment claims have not climbed, but a lack of hiring, resulting from a lack of growth in demand and huge policy uncertainty,

france24 03-SEP-11

[ said]: The extreme uncertainty over the outcome of the debt-ceiling debate probably did extra damage to the August (job) figures,

arabtimes 03-SEP-11

[ said]: The problem doesn't seem to be an upsurge in firings ... but a lack of hiring, resulting from a lack of growth in demand and huge policy uncertainty,

channelnewsasia 02-SEP-11

[ said]: The ISM survey is consistent with an economy staggering forward at a weak pace of growth. When the economy tips into recession, the ISM index usually drops into the low 40s,

news 01-SEP-11

[ said]: At this point you’re really pushing on a string,

IHT 24-AUG-11

[ said]: The US Treasury market will remain by far the largest and most liquid in the world, with no equal, and a relative safe haven in times of global financial stress -- as demonstrated by in last week’s global financial turmoil and ‘wholesale flight to safety and quality’,

hurriyetdailynews 15-AUG-11

[ said]: The US Treasury market will remain by far the largest and most liquid in the world, with no equal, and a relative safe haven in times of global financial stress – as demonstrated by in last week’s global financial turmoil and ‘wholesale flight to safety and quality’,

tribune 14-AUG-11

[ says]: The Federal Reserve would assist any bank unable to get the necessary financing through the marketplace,

news 14-AUG-11

[ says]: could explode at any moment, or nothing might happen,

news 14-AUG-11

[ said]: ,

btimescom 14-AUG-11

[-says]: On top of that, we had some historical GDP revisions which told us for most of the recovery we've actually been doing worse than we thought,

npr 11-AUG-11

[-says]: The slowdown in growth puts us at a point where we are extremely vulnerable to shocks that could push our economy over the edge into recession,

npr 11-AUG-11

[-says]: So I think the fear in the market is understandable. The risk is that that panic feeds on itself and that expectations drive us into recession.

npr 11-AUG-11

[ said]: It just reinforced the feelings on the part of investors that there's … a lot of things to be worried about,

latimes 09-AUG-11

[-said]: It is hard to see any of these options as ‘game changers,’

dailytimesPK 09-AUG-11

[ said]: It amounts to a vote of no confidence in the U.S. government,

washtimes 08-AUG-11

[ said]: If they're looking at Greece, for instance, they've got to consider whether or not the political system is able to take the action to stabilize debt,

news 08-AUG-11

[ said]: The July jobs report was not as bad as May and June. That’s about the best that we can say for it,

arabtimes 06-AUG-11

[ said]: It gives us some temporary relief,

IHT 05-AUG-11

[ said]: It nibbles at the edges of the problem,

thestar 02-AUG-11

[ said]: The second-half rebound is melting away,

smh 30-JUL-11

[-said]: The depth of the recession is now clearly so much deeper,

CBC 29-JUL-11

[ said]: The odds that the United States will face a ratings downgrade, even if the debt ceiling is raised, have clearly risen,

hurriyetdailynews 26-JUL-11

[ said]: The odds that the United States will face a ratings downgrade, even if the debt-ceiling is raised, have clearly risen,

nzherald 26-JUL-11

[ said]: This report has dashed hopes that the economy was about to accelerate again,

ChinaPost 10-JUL-11

[ said]: For policymakers, this news makes their tasks more difficult,

news 09-JUL-11

[ said]: For policy-makers, this news makes their tasks more difficult,

news 08-JUL-11

[ said]: It was far worse than expected, and weak on all key dimensions -- job creation, unemployment, the length of the workweek, and hourly earnings,

news 08-JUL-11

[-said]: The recent pattern of jobs suggests that the economy hit a brick wall in May,

CBC 08-JUL-11

[ said]: The June jobs report was a shocker,

CBC 08-JUL-11

[ said]: We clearly slowed on an underlying basis in the second quarter,

IHT 07-JUL-11

[ said]: There are signs of hope for the second half,

channelnewsasia 24-JUN-11

[ said]: a little better than you might have expected given the gloomy news that's coming out of the manufacturing surveys. So that's a small plus,

ChinaPost 24-JUN-11

[ said]: The key questions will be about how the Fed views the present combination of weak growth and higher-than-expected inflation,

ibtimes 19-JUN-11

[ said]: There are plenty of reasons to expect the third quarter will be better. But the question is now becoming how much better?,

arabtimes 04-JUN-11

[ said]: Pressures from rising commodity costs, plus supply-chain disruptions from Japan’s natural disaster, and extreme weather domestically, have combined to slow manufacturing’s momentum,

IHT 02-JUN-11

[ said]: It's very hard to generate a rapid recovery when rapid recoveries are historically driven by housing and the consumer,

ibtimes 02-JUN-11

[ said]: The second-quarter rebound is likely to be muted,

todayonline 27-MAY-11

[ said]: The second quarter rebound is likely to be muted,

telegraph 27-MAY-11

[-said]: good momentum that should allow the economy to absorb the twin shocks from the Middle East and Japan without too much damage,

economictimes 07-MAY-11

[ says]: Clearly, the falling price of crude oil is good news, although it's too early to say that we've turned the tide,

usaToday 06-MAY-11

[ said]: GDP growth should pick up to more than 3 percent in the second quarter. If oil prices stay down ... the economy can maintain that pace in the second half,

reuters 06-MAY-11

[ said]: considerable way to go to meet the Fed's dual mandate of full employment and price stability. Most economists agree, noting that there is still a huge amount of slack in the labor market and wage growth remains tepid. Average hourly earnings rose a mere 3 cents in April and are up a modest 1.9 percent from a year ago. Only a fraction of the more than 8 million jobs lost in the 2007-2009 recession have been recovered. Even at April's relatively rapid rate of job growth, it would take nearly 2-1/2 years to re

ibtimes 06-MAY-11

[ said]: Over the long term, the two surveys get the same story about the economy, but over a one-month period, they often diverge by quite a lot,

npr 06-MAY-11

[ said]: There seems to be more underlying momentum there than certainly had been feared going into the report,

IHT 06-MAY-11

[ writes]: We don't think that payroll employment growth will keep up the same pace in May and June, since we can't dismiss the weaker evidence from initial [unemployement] claims,

csmonitor 06-MAY-11

[-said]: So it's not the case that we were adding plenty of jobs and that they were just temporary,

npr 06-MAY-11

[ says]: Generally, any time there is more transparency it's better,

irishsun 26-APR-11

[ said]: Now that is all everybody is talking about ... reducing the deficit,

theglobeandmail 20-APR-11

[ said]: This should help to ease inflation concerns at the Fed. With food and energy cutting into consumer spending power, it’s difficult for sellers of other goods and services to pass price increases through to the consumer,

arabtimes 16-APR-11

[ said]: This should help to ease inflation concerns at the Fed. With food and energy cutting into consumer spending power, it's difficult for sellers of other goods and services to pass price increases through to the consumer,

ibtimes 15-APR-11

[ said]: A brief shutdown of a few days would have a trivial impact - but costs would mount the longer the shutdown lasted,

dailytimesPK 09-APR-11

[ says]: The longer the higher price remains in place, the more likely it is that people will adjust their spending habits,

wsj 22-MAR-11

[ said]: Wages will be the thing to watch -- there won't be an inflationary spiral unless wage inflation picks up. But higher costs are both squeezing profit margins and consumer spending power,

reuters 16-MAR-11

[ says]: We're starting to see other prices creep up — tires, clothing, food,

usaToday 11-MAR-11

[ said]: It's a recovery but it's still a very muted recovery,

wsj 05-MAR-11

[ said]: Most indicators suggest that an acceleration in private employment growth from around 150,000 per month to 200,000 per month is on the way,

independent 05-MAR-11

[ said]: Unless the shock from the Middle East worsens, an important caveat, an underlying acceleration in payroll growth is on the way,

reuters 04-MAR-11

[-said]: The inflation-phobic European Central Bank might react differently, which may explain why the euro has been rising in recent days,

dailytimesPK 01-MAR-11

[-said]: Of course, at that point, they're getting paid for having done nothing,

npr 28-FEB-11

[ said]: They don't get paid,

npr 28-FEB-11

[ said]: Housing is basically flat on its back, and manufacturing is growing very fast, probably the biggest contrast in the economy,

timesofoman 20-FEB-11

[-says]: There won't be an inflationary spiral unless wage inflation picks up.

thestar 17-FEB-11

[ argues]: It's too early to panic about inflation,

thestar 17-FEB-11

[ said]: The question is whether we are seeing a limited pass-through of commodity price hikes or the beginnings of an inflationary spiral,

bbc 17-FEB-11

[ said]: Compared to the way things operated in the past, credit would be a little less easy to obtain, and the terms would be a little less attractive,

AP 12-FEB-11