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1 U.S. jobs outlook likely to worsen Business
WASHINGTON — As bad as Friday's jobs report was, showing October's unemployment rate jumping sharply to 10.2 percent, from 9.8 percent in September, the outlook is likely to worsen for U.S. workers well into next year.
11/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 G-20 sets out new 'framework' Politics
PITTSBURGH — Leaders of the world's most-developed economies agreed late Friday to restrict runaway financial-sector executive pay, give emerging powers a bigger role in global institutions and create a new structure to promote global economic growth.
9/26/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 Bernanke: Recession is 'very likely over' Business
WASHINGTON — The deep recession that's gripped the U.S. economy by the throat since December 2007 is "very likely over at this point," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.
9/16/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 Employment increasing for workers 55 and older Nation and World
The nation's unemployment rate was 9.4 percent in July and is expected to top 10 percent before a sustainable growth cycle ends the recession. Americans of all working-age groups have lost a significant number of jobs, but older workers have fared less poorly as a percentage of the work force.
8/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 Tensions simmer behind North American summit Politics
WASHINGTON — President Obama will meet today in Guadalajara, Mexico, with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts for a summit of North American leaders that will be long on vision and short on anything concrete. In the midst of a punishing global economic downturn, that's not bad.
8/9/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 Energy-speculator curbs eyed Business
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission signaled Tuesday that his agency is likely to limit financial speculators' ability to drive up prices for oil and other fuels.
7/29/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 New agency to bundle consumer protection Business
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Tuesday sent Congress a detailed plan to create one of the most ambitious parts of the president's proposed overhaul of financial regulation, a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
7/2/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 10 banks to repay $68B in TARP money Business
WASHINGTON — Ten of the nation's largest bank-holding companies have gotten the OK to repay the federal government a combined $68 billion in taxpayer bailout money, the Treasury Department said Tuesday morning.
6/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 Jobless rate rises, but pace slows Business
WASHINGTON — Better-than-expected May employment numbers Friday showed that the breathtaking pace of job losses is moderating, but experts warn the unemployment rate will continue to climb for months and job growth could remain sluggish for years.
6/6/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 Government rides along with GM on trailblazing route Nation and World
WASHINGTON — Now that General Motors has filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors — a humbling moment for an icon of American manufacturing — the question from Wall Street to Main Street is whether its nationalization and restructuring plan can work.
6/2/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 Stress-test leaks suggest banks will sit on money Business
WASHINGTON — The banking sector remains a threat to the broader economy, judging by leaks of results from stress tests on the nation's 19 largest banks ahead of Thursday's official release by federal regulators.
5/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 Is recession coming to an end? Some signs the worst may be over Politics
WASHINGTON — The jobless rate is expected to tick up this week and continue climbing for months, a crisis in commercial real-estate looms and the latest survey of bank lending suggests it's still pretty difficult to get a new mortgage.
5/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 Why did AIG pay banks in full? Fed didn't use leverage Business
The revelation sheds new light on last month's disclosure by AIG that it used loans from the New York Fed to pay more than $17 billion to foreign creditors such as France's Societe Generale and Credit Agricole, and Germany's Deutsche Bank. U.S.
4/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 Slivers of hope amid steep job losses Business
WASHINGTON — A fifth consecutive monthly report showing steep job losses served as a grim reminder Friday of how bad things are in the U.S. economy, but also offered a glimpse of hope that the worst may soon be over. Employers shed 663,000 jobs in March, pushing total U.S.
4/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Accounting rule change could end bank crisis, or make it worse Business
WASHINGTON — The little-known Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is poised to deliver today a change in accounting rules that proponents say will save the banking system — and opponents warn could bring even more ruin to the U.S. economy.
4/2/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Chances good that car titans could go bankrupt Business
WASHINGTON — President Obama's rejection Monday of restructuring plans offered by General Motors and Chrysler increases the likelihood that one or both automakers could declare bankruptcy. Obama found the plans inadequate to turn the companies toward sustained profitability.
3/31/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 No more bailouts for auto companies — for now Business
WASHINGTON — President Obama today will reject requests for almost $22 billion in new taxpayer money for General Motors and Chrysler, saying the automakers have failed to take steps to ensure their viability.
3/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 Bank plan stokes stock rally Nation and World
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's long-awaited plan to help banks dispose of so-called "toxic assets" so they can resume lending was greeted Monday with a huge rally on Wall Street, but its longer-term success remains far from certain.
3/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Feds aim to get toxic assets off bank books Business
WASHINGTON — After an unsuccessful first attempt, the Treasury Department is poised to announce today details of its plan to help get so-called toxic assets off the balance sheets of the nation's largest and often most troubled financial institutions.
3/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 Economic guru says jobless rate to hit 9.5% Business
WASHINGTON — When Republicans and Democrats in the nation's capital want to make a point about the economy, they often cite Mark Zandi. A middle-of-the-road economic forecaster who speaks in plain English, Zandi increasingly has become the economic oracle of record.
3/6/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results