Showing posts with label federal reserve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label federal reserve. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Wall Street Rebounds With Gains on Autos and GE

Stocks snapped back on Tuesday after a pledge by General Electric, a global bellwether, to leave its dividend intact in a fragile economy sparked optimism...

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Source: Reuters

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

U.S. Injects Further $800Bn to Kick-Start Lending

The Federal Reserve is to advance $600bn to the mortgage market, with a further $200bn aimed at the consumer debt market, in what one economist said was "as close as the Fed can get to lending money directly to consumers"...

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Source: Telegraph

Thursday, November 20, 2008

U.S. Labor Market: Jobless Claims Jump to 16 Year High

First-time filings for unemployment benefits shot up to their highest level since July 1992 last week, rising 27,000 to a seasonally adjusted 542,000 and punctuating the struggling state of the U.S. labor market, government data showed Thursday...

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Source: MarketWatch