Oct 08 Watch News Wrap: Jobs Report Fuels New Rally on Wall Street In other news Friday, the latest unemployment reading helped push Wall Street higher, with the Nasdaq and Dow Jones industrial average each up more than 1 percent for the week. Continue watching
Oct 08 Watch U.S. Recovering Jobs But Pace Has Slowed, Analyst Says The Labor Department reported that there were 95,000 jobs lost last month and that September's numbers continue 14 straight months of unemployment being above 9.5 percent. Judy Woodruff reports on the latest numbers, then Ray Suarez talks to Lakshman Achuthan,… Continue watching
Oct 07 Upcoming: Ways To Deal With the Foreclosure Crisis By Paul Solman The past week's revelations of bank insouciance with regard to the legal niceties of foreclosure and eviction, most notably the robo-signers who admitted they did not read what they signed off on, have led to a national push… Continue reading
Oct 07 Upcoming: Ways To Deal With the Foreclosure Crisis The past week’s revelations of bank insouciance with regard to the legal niceties of foreclosure and eviction, most notably the robo-signers who admitted they did not read what they signed off on, have led to a national push… Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch 'Robo-Signing' Paperwork Breakdown Leaves Many Houses in Foreclosure Limbo Foreclosures in 23 states have been halted by major banks after allegations surfaced of illegal practices. Jeffrey Brown talks to the president of the Center for Responsible Lending and a Columbia economics professor for more. Continue watching
Oct 06 To Visit or Not To Visit Spain? Name: Walter Power Question: I very much enjoyed your recent report on the economic conditions that Spain is dealing with. My wife and I were planning to spend time in Barcelona this fall and I was wondering if the… Continue reading
Oct 05 Google, Apple Among Those Vying for Living Room Media Dominance The idea of merging the Web and television was so powerful in the late 90s that the U.S. government classified it as a weapon, but the promise has since suffered "years of false-starts and not-quite-there implementations." As people… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch Consumer Czar Warren Sees Transparency in Banking as Top Priority Elizabeth Warren, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, talks to Jeffrey Brown about the goals of her new agency and how she plans to empower Americans to make better financial choices. Continue watching
Oct 05 Inside the Supreme Court: Marcia Coyle on NASA Background Checks Case By Elizabeth Summers Courtroom sketch courtesy William Hennessy How much personal information should a job applicant have to give up to a prospective employer? That's the question the Supreme Court wrestled with Tuesday as it heard arguments in the privacy case… Continue reading
Oct 05 With Such High Unemployment, Should the Foreign Worker Program End? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news every day on his Making Sense page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: John Carter Question: Given current employment, why is there still an H1-B program… Continue reading