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It was kind of a buzz-kill moment. Earlier this month, at a town hall meeting in Township, Pa., Mitt Romney mentioned that the jobless rate had dropped a bit, from 8.2% to 8.1%. The audience started to applaud, but Romney stopped them.
May 24, 2012 at 23:57 | Source: Los Angeles Times
Mitt Romney, in a sit-down interview with Time's Mark Halperin, said that by the end of his first term as president he would get the unemployment rate down to or below 6 percent from its current rate of just over 8 percent. "I can't possibly ...
May 23, 2012 at 21:21 | Source: Huffington Post
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- The Deputy Governor of Sweden's Riksbank, Per Jansson, Friday said he will concentrate on the situation in peripheral Europe at the upcoming Swedish rate-setting meeting in July. Speaking to reporters at a seminar in ...
May 25, 2012 at 11:32 | Source: NASDAQ
Colombian traders and economists predict the central bank will hold borrowing costs at a three- year high for a third month even after policy makers warned a surge in credit risks fanning inflation. The seven-member board, led by bank chief Jose ...
May 25, 2012 at 14:09 | Source: Bloomberg
WELLINGTON – The New Zealand Treasury is expecting the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to begin raising the Official Cash Rate from its current low 2.5% in early 2013, it said Thursday. "Strengthening demand in the economy and diminishing spare ...
May 24, 2012 at 02:29 | Source: FOXBusiness
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- A new, more accurate way of calculating Alabama's graduation rate shows that fewer students are leaving high school on time and with a diploma than previously claimed. This is the first year the state is using a four-year ...
May 26, 2012 at 11:37 | Source: Everything Alabama Blog
The U.K. Financial Services Authority is investigating claims that banks improperly sold interest-rate derivatives to small businesses, Adair Turner, the agency’s chairman, said. The FSA will assess the sales techniques and design of the ...
May 23, 2012 at 10:08 | Source: Bloomberg
Better management of blood sugar levels and improved tools for managing heart disease have led to a sharp drop in the death rate for diabetics, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday. Between 1997 ...
May 22, 2012 at 21:01 | Source: Los Angeles Times
State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler announced today that the preliminary unemployment rate in metro Savannah rose to 8.4 percent in April, up one-tenth of a percentage point from 8.3 percent in March. The rate was also 8.4 percent in April 2011.
May 25, 2012 at 09:23 | Source: Savannah Morning News
Many hotel chains have a policy that if you find a better rate on a different website than their own (ie hotel.com, expedia.com, etc.) then you are entitled to a benefit such as bonus points, a discounted rate, or even a free night.  For years I have read ...
May 25, 2012 at 06:09 | Source: USA Today