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Financial Watch: Unemployment, Construction, Spending Edge Upward

Last Week’s Headlines The unemployment rate edged upward to 6.7% and away from the 6.5% that would have led to increased speculation about the Federal Reserve possibly accelerating an increase in interest rates. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the increase–the first since December 2012–occurred despite the U.S. economy adding 175,000 jobs in February. […]

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Financial Watch: Dow's Loss Is Index Worst January Since 2009

  MARKET WEEK: FEBRUARY 3, 2014 The Markets It’s a small, small world: Despite various attempts at propping up local currencies, emerging markets continued to suffer from concerns that 1) assets being moved to stronger currencies could undermine already fragile economies, and 2) a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing could reduce demand for commodities, exports of

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Financial Watch: Investors Seek Safety of Treasury Bonds

The Markets A double whammy helped trigger a selloff in equities last week. Weaker-than-expected manufacturing data from China helped fuel concerns about the global impact of potential additional Fed tightening next week and a stronger U.S. dollar. Some lackluster earnings reports didn’t help, though profit-taking in the wake of last year’s strong rally also could

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Financial Watch: Only 74,000 New Jobs Added Unemployment Rate Falls.

Believers in the so-called January indicator–the concept that the first five trading days suggest the stock market’s overall direction for the rest of the year–were likely discouraged last week. The S&P gave up roughly half a percentage point during 2014’s first five trading days. The other three domestic indices also slipped during those five days,

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Financial Watch: Decline in Unemployment, Increase in Holiday Spending

Last Week’s Headlines The addition of 203,000 new jobs in November helped cut the unemployment rate to 7%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the biggest monthly decline in more than a year, and leaves unemployment at its lowest level since November 2008. The return of furloughed federal government workers was a factor

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Financial Watch: Unemployment Rates Remain Low, Existing Home Sales Take a Slight Dip

  Last Week’s Headlines The unemployment rate continued to inch downward, hitting 7.2% in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the lowest unemployment rate since November 2008. However, the 148,000 jobs added during the month was lower than the monthly average for the past year, and including underemployed and discouraged workers would

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Last Week’s Headlines Global growth this year is expected to be more sluggish than previously thought, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest report. The new 2.9% figure for 2013 is lower than the 3.2% forecast in July and would be the slowest growth in four years. The IMF cited as key threats the potential

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