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Candidates Pledge Jobs, But Where?
chicago, oct. 2 (upi) -- the u.s. presidential candidates promise job creation, but the question remains where the jobs might be created, a private research group said.
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Us Rate Futures-see 50 Bps Fed Cut On Weak Sept Jobs - Reuters
chicago, oct 3 (reuters) - u.s. short-term interest rate futures held onto earlier gains on friday and continue to point to an aggressive federal reserve rate cut this month after a weaker than expected september payrolls report. futures fully price ...
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Apple Shares Rebound After Company Refutes Jobs Heart Attack Rumor - Chicago Tribune
shares of apple inc. dropped briefly to an 18-month low friday morning on an unsubstantiated rumor that chief executive steve jobs had been rushed to the hospital following signs of a heart attack. the company quickly denied the report, causing the ...
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Apple Shares Rebound After Company Refutes Jobs Heart Attack Rumor
shares of apple inc. dropped briefly to an 18-month low friday morning on an unsubstantiated rumor that chief executive steve jobs had been rushed to the hospital following signs of a heart attack.
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False Steve Jobs Heart Attack Story Hits The Web
an “ireporter” published a brief story on cnn.com, claiming that apple ceo steve jobs was rushed to the emergency room after he suffered a major heart attack earlier this morning. apple’s stock plunged by about 10% as a result, but recovered as apple denied what now appears to have been either an irresponsible post or a tasteless joke.
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Employers Cut Jobs By Most In More Than 5 Years - Chicago Tribune
washington - employers slashed payrolls by 159,000 in september, the most in more than five years, a worrisome sign that the economy is hurtling toward a deep recession. the labor department's fresh snapshot, released friday, also showed that the ...
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False Steve Jobs Heart Attack Story Hits The Web - Tg Daily
chicago (il) – an “ireporter” published a brief story on cnn.com, claiming that apple ceo steve jobs was rushed to the emergency room after he suffered a major heart attack earlier this morning. apple’s stock plunged by about 10% as a result ...
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Duo Gives Up Stable Jobs To Go Around The World In A Vw Bus
pat and ali schulte are driving around the world in their 1958 volkswagen panel van. this week they visited norman on their way south.the young people had stable jobs in chicago five years ago -- pat as a commodities trader and ali as a secretary at a law firm.
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(afx Uk Focus) 2008-10-03 13:50 Us Rate Futures-see 50 Bps Fed Cut On Weak Sept Jobs
new york chicago, oct 3 (reuters) - u.s. short-term interest rate futures held onto earlier gains on friday and continue to point to an aggressive federal reserve rate cut this month after a weaker than expected september payrolls report. futures fully price a 50 basis point cut to the fed funds rate at the october fed policy-setting meeting. non-farm payrolls fell in september by a much larger ...
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Treasuries Fall For First Time In Three Days After Jobs Report - Bloomberg
oct. 3 (bloomberg) -- treasuries fell for the first time in three days as traders said september's decline in u.s. payrolls wasn't as large as some of the more dire estimates. two-year notes are still headed for a sixth week of gains on speculation a ...
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'r-word' Popping Up As More Jobs Cut - Herald News
the economy is hurtling toward a deep recession. the labor department's fresh snapshot, released friday, also showed that the nation's unemployment rate held steady at 6.1 percent as hundreds of thousands of people streamed out of the work force for ...
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Some Bp Workers Heading To City
bp says it's progressing with plans to relocate some employees from its dupage county facilities to chicago, but that it plans to maintain a presence in naperville. bp said in may that it planned to move 1,000 jobs from its area locations to the chicago mercantile exchange complex.
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Treasuries Fall For First Time In Three Days After Jobs Report
oct. 3 (bloomberg) -- treasuries fell for the first time in three days as traders said september's decline in u.s. payrolls wasn't as large as some of the more dire estimates.
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U.s. Stocks Rise On Bailout, Rate Speculation; Wachovia Jumps - Bloomberg
oct. 3 (bloomberg) -- u.s. stocks rose for the first time in three days as the biggest job losses in five years spurred expectations congress will pass a bank-bailout plan and the federal reserve will cut interest rates to bolster the economy. bank ...
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Obama Pegs Sour Job News On Mccain - Cbs 2 Chicago
abington, pa. (ap) ? democrat barack obama is trying to turn bad news about new job losses against presidential rival john mccain. the government's jobs report released friday showed employers cut 159,000 jobs last month, the most in more than five ...
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Dollar Heads For Weekly Loss Versus Yen, Euro Before Jobs Data
oct. 3 (bloomberg) -- the dollar fell against the yen, headed for a third weekly loss, before a government report that will probably show the deepening credit crunch contributed to the biggest drop in employment in more than five years.
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Graphic Packaging To Close Suburban Chicago Label Plant
graphic packaging holding co.’s graphic packaging international inc. unit said thursday it will streamline its u.s. label business, shuttering a label manufacturing facility near chicago in early 2009. (gpk)
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Jobs Report Video Gallery - Cnbc
i've been surprised that things aren’t worse given the nature of the financial crisis over the last 13 months,” says stephen davis, an employment expert and a professor at the university of chicago’s graduate school of business. “the good ...
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Tough Times Call For A Strong City Council - Chicago Sun-times
chicago faces a $400 million budget deficit, the highest sales tax in the country and escalating property taxes. up to 1,000 city employees could lose their jobs. these are perilous economic times. we need a strong city council as well as a strong ...
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U.s. Stock Futures Gain As Jobs Data Spurs Rate-cut Speculation
oct. 3 (bloomberg) -- u.s. stock-index futures rose after a bigger-than-forecast drop in employment spurred expectations that the federal reserve will cut interest rates to bolster the economy.
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