US economy
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All the latest business and economic news, as the US Non-Farm Payroll shows the biggest monthly increase in almost three years
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Unemployment rate stays at 5.9% and 9 million still out of work as Thanksgiving storms appear not to have hampered figures
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The recession is history if you’re a senior executive. The money is great, the perks are numerous and jobs are plenty in the C-suite universe
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Figures at unusually low level suggest employers are anticipating stronger economic growth
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Preliminary results of retail survey see 11% decline in spending at retail stores
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Start of sales as early as Halloween among factors blamed as nymber of Black Friday weekend shoppers falls 5.7% from 2013
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Shopping trip with Sasha and Malia a nod to the importance of supporting small businesses
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Ferguson protesters shut down St Louis Galleria mall while Walmart workers demonstrate on busiest shopping day
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Protests and strikes expected at 1,600 Walmart stores across US as retailers forecast record revenues at start of holiday shopping season
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Surge in business and consumer spending drove the US economy to an annual growth rate of 3.9% between July and September, but there are still concerns over a slowdown
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The American economy grew faster than first estimated, with GDP rising at an annual pace of 3.9% in the July-September quarter
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Business agenda: Despite recent controversies, the sandwich maker’s chief executive – and its latest results – are the toast of the City
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Derek De Armond sets up two-week camp outside Fort Myers Best Buy in attempt to give ‘doorbusters deal’ TV to charity
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Pointed questions and plenty of ire were put to William Dudley regarding alleged coziness between his investigators and the banks they supervise
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The US-based firm involved in a row with its London tenants has a similar reputation for trying to oust poor residents in New York
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Consultants shrug at lack of ‘smoking gun’
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Our Walmart labour group promises biggest protest yet following Thanksgiving a day after
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It’s an economy on warp speed, a place where you can go from nobody to millionaire in weeks. So what does it take to make it in Silicon Valley? Oliver Burkeman meets the young Brits going for broke
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Not since the Great Depression has wealth inequality in the US been so acute, new in-depth study finds
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Editorial: Three countries have caught five institutions with their hands in the till. Banking is rotten to the core, but flattering pre-crisis ideas about its role have proved remarkably hard to shift
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Documents show traders congratulating each other in private chat rooms over manipulating foreign exchange price for profit
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Regulators in US and UK mete out record fines after finding a ‘free for all culture’ on currency trading floors at RBS, HSBC, Citibank, JP Morgan and UBS
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Farai Chideya: The midterms have only confirmed what many believe: in this system, not voting is almost akin to conscientious objection
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Labor Department figures show employers added 214,000 jobs in October but 2.9 million Americans have been without jobs for six months or more
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Over 50 and once successful, jobless Americans seek support groups to help where Congress has failed
While lawmakers have largely ignored the issue of long-term unemployment, support groups are cropping up across the country. Nicky Woolf reports -
This year alone, four casinos have shut down in America’s infamous east-coast gambling resort. An estimated 10,000 jobs will be lost. Can this one-industry town find a way to rescue its losses? A man called Guardian still thinks so ...
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Nouriel Roubini: The pilots of the global financial system must navigate menacing storm clouds
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Trevor Williams: The US has stopped printing money, and both countries seem likely soon to be back in step with modest, gradual interest rate rises
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President speaks at Rhode Island college in speech on better-than-expected GDP report in the final days before midterm elections
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Annual growth of 3.5% stronger than the 3% forecast, boosted by a rise in exports and government defence spending
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Heidi Moore: The Federal Reserve has spent six years and over $3tn buying up bonds to save the economy. Now it has to figure out how to sell it all back without creating a panic
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Central bank’s head, Janet Yellen, confirms cessation of buying bonds in October after injection of £4.5 trillion over five years
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Investors await announcement from US central bank on stemming flow of credit to the economy.
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Over the last five years, the Federal Reserve has pumped almost $4.5tn into the US economy through quantitative easing
Topics
- Economics
- Federal Reserve
- US economic growth and recession
- Retail industry
- Banking
- Black Friday
- Financial sector
- US personal finance
- European banks
- Interest rates
- US unemployment and employment data
- Global economy
- US politics
- Quantitative easing
- Bank of England
- Regulators
- US markets
- Financial Conduct Authority
- Thanksgiving
- Banking reform
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