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| | | ... year - from 3.7% in August. This could be news that could be taken badly or goodly. The negative spin would be that Americans are dipping into their savings to pay for their consumption - this is not sustainable and so expect a reversal in spending going ... |
| | | | The proportion of people in the US worried about how they'll fund their retirement has skyrocketed, and leading the charge is young people. A national survey of 2,508 people conducted by the Pew Research Center (PRC) has found that 66% of people are ... |
| | | | ... have, the 30-year loan rate has fallen from 3.95% at the start of 2012 to a record low of 3.34% on 4 October - to entice Americans back into the housing market and/or reduce repayments on existing mortgages, freeing up homeowners' cash flows which then ... |
| | | | ... stores (up 4.5%) contributed to last month's increase in spending, yes, that means iPhone5 - a discretionary purchase. Americans bought cars too - another item of discretion - up 1.3% last month from up 1.8% in August and building materials and garden ... |
| | | | ... market activity, if not through the end of this year or longer, at least until next month. It was good. About 114,000 Americans found jobs in September - statistically at par with market expectations for a 115,000 gain in the month. Better, the Bureau ... |
| | | | ... US labour market and better sales from retail stores helped push Wall Street higher. The government said that 367,000 Americans sought unemployment benefits for the first time last week, an increase from the previous week but fewer than economists had ... |
| | | | ... Opportunity Fund portfolio manager at Fidelity. "So you can relive stress in the mortgage funding markets, but if everyone [Americans] is under water on their house they can't refinance and are stuck." On the other hand, Howitt said, if they are not ... |
| | | | ... campaign. However, the immediate take-away is that we might not get anymore bad European debt crisis news until after the Americans vote. Or would we? |
| | | | ... night, data on consumer credit - down by US$3.28 billion (versus expectations of a US$9.2 bil increase) - indicated that Americans are still deleveraging. This, along with weak employment growth and falling household confidence - down to 60.6 in August ... |
| | | | ... June) -- point to continued unsatisfactory gains in employment in the coming months. This means that apart from those Americans without jobs, there's still something for everyone in the latest US jobs stats. It's gaining strength... but not strong enough ... |
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