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THE ECONOMY.(A)
Construction spending off 0.2%
Feb.'s decline was the first since Aug., but the annualized rate of $872.21 bil was better than expected, the Commerce Dept. said. Spending fell 0.2% vs. a year ago. Spending on private construction, including homes and office buildings, rose 0.7% from Jan. But road, school and other public construction fell 3%.
Retail sales continue to decline
Instinet Research's Redbook Average, which gauges national retail sales, dropped 2.8% last week from year-ago levels. For the month, sales fell 1.5% through March 29 from the same period last year. Separately, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi-UBS Warburg's Retail Chain Store Sales Index fell 1.4% last week from the week before.
Japan's business confidence falls
The Bank of Japan's latest tankan survey showed confidence fell in Jan.-March as economists said the full impact of war in Iraq was yet to be felt. The large manufacturers' index slipped a point to -10, the first decline in the index since Oct.-Dec. '01. ...
- Jobless rate hits 7.7pc.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 17, 2002 700+ words
...Standard) Byline: Jonathan Tam The jobless rate rose for the 12th straight month to...corresponding period to May, when the jobless rate was 7.4 per cent, the Census and...labour demand.'' The rise in the jobless rate is likely to dampen fragile consumer...
- Oklahoma jobless rate increases.
- Magazine article from: Journal Record (Oklahoma City, OK) April 18, 2003 700+ words
...Security Commission. The state's jobless rate was up from 5.4 percent in January...Area, Cleveland County had the lowest jobless rate in February with 3.5 percent, down...February 2002. Oklahoma County's jobless rate for the month was 5.3 percent, up...
- Beaumont, Texas-Area Jobless Rate Increases.
- News wire article from: Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX) April 20, 2001 700+ words
...Commission reported Thursday. March's jobless rate inched up to 6.9 percent...Austin. Statewide, the jobless rate was 4.1 percent for March. A year ago, it was 4...2000. In Orange, the March jobless rate was 8.2 percent, down...
- JOBLESS RATE SEES A SURGE.
- Newspaper article from: Sarasota Herald Tribune June 20, 2009 700+ words
...stabilizing after March and April improvements...the state's jobless rate also fell...forecast, issued in March, had the jobless rate peaking at the...from February and March to April in all...double-digit jobless rate represents 943...
- 2ND LD: Japan's jobless rate hits 8-yr low of 4.1% in 2006.
- Newspaper article from: Japan Weekly Monitor February 5, 2007 700+ words
...from November. In December, Japan's jobless rate inched up 0.1 percentage point to...market forecast of 4.0 percent. The jobless rate was up from the previous month as a...closely monitor future trends as the jobless rate rose 0.1 point in December,'' the...
- St. Charles County's jobless rate continues to climb slightly.
- Newspaper article from: St. Charles County Business Record, MO August 22, 2003 700+ words
...climb, albeit slightly, in July. The jobless rate rose to 4.5 percent in July, one...experienced a significant increase in its jobless rate. Local and state labor officials said...the previous month. The county's jobless rate stood at 6.2 percent a year ago...
- Ohio jobless rate climbing due to auto woes.
- Magazine article from: Crain's Cleveland Business Lowe, Roger K. January 29, 1990 700+ words
...to show Ohio's jobless rate surging because...that began last March. In Ohio, the...estimate Ohio's jobless rate for January could...The national jobless rate for December was...jobless level since March 1988. An unusual...
- Area jobless rate skyrockets.(City/Region)(Eugene-Springfield's jump in the...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) April 30, 2009 700+ words
...Springfield area's jobless rate from March 2008 to March 2009...Labor Department. The jobless rate in Bend leaped 9.2 percentage points since March 2008, the second...Springfield area's March jobless rate is the 24th-worst...
- Oklahoma's jobless rate falls to 4.4 percent.
- Magazine article from: Journal Record (Oklahoma City, OK) August 27, 2004 700+ words
...Commission reported Thursday. The state's jobless rate was down from 5 percent in June, 4...and 5.1 percent in July 2003. The jobless rate for the area was unchanged from May...8 percent in July 2003. July's jobless rate for the Lawton Metropolitan Statistical...
- UPDATE 3-US jobless rate falls to 5.7%; 143,000 payrolls added.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 7, 2003 700+ words
...WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - The U.S. jobless rate fell to 5.7 percent in January from...000 in November. They expected the jobless rate to remain at an 8-year high of 6 percent...t help demand grow. The data on the jobless rate are equally suspect. The government...
