May 10 Markets React Positively to EU's $960 Billion Bailout Agreement After 11 hours of negotiations that stretched into early Monday, EU finance ministers have agreed to an enormous 750 billion euro (about U.S. $960 billion) bailout plan aimed at preventing the Greek financial crisis from spreading further into the… Continue reading
May 10 Monday: Obama to Pick Kagan for Supreme Court; Setbacks in Gulf Spill By Jason Breslow Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, left, gets the attention of Solicitor General Elena Kagan at a 2009 forum at Georgetown University Law Center. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Barack Obama on Monday is expected to nominate… Continue reading
May 10 Watch News Wrap: Bombings Mark Deadly Day in Iraq In other news Monday, at least 99 people were killed in a series of violent attacks across Iraq, with hundreds more wounded. Also, Gordon Brown agreed to step aside as Britain's prime minister in a bid to keep his party… Continue watching
May 10 Watch IMF Deputy Outlines European Bailout Package, What's Ahead for Spain, Portugal Gwen Ifill talks to John Lipsky, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, about the $1 trillion aid package to steady Greece and insulate other eurozone countries from a spreading debt crisis. Continue watching
May 09 How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico? By Chris Amico, Vanessa Dennis View ticker with live video feed. Last updated 11 a.m. ET on May 27. Nobody knows for certain how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since last month's oil rig explosion. What we do have… Continue reading
May 09 Dispatch From Alabama: Watching, Waiting for Impact of Oil Spill By Tom Bearden Correspondent Tom Bearden has been reporting from Louisiana and Alabama on the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill and filed this dispatch for the Rundown. There's a new feature on the local TV weather forecast in Mobile, Ala.:… Continue reading
May 07 Analysts See Signs of Recovery in Latest Jobs Report Editor’s note: According to the latest jobs numbers released Friday, the U.S. economy added 290,000 jobs in April, a welcome sign that an economic recovery may be taking root. But the unemployment rate also rose to 9.9 percent. We asked… Continue reading
May 07 Gwen's Take: The Politics of Panic By Gwen Ifill It felt as if everyone was rushing to the ramparts this week. From Times Square to the Gulf Coast to Greece and Wall Street, the world has seemed positively out of breath. Part of the reason, of… Continue reading
May 07 Friday: U.S. Jobless Rate Rises to 9.9%, but Employers Add 290,000 Jobs; Britain Facing a Hung Parliament Employers added 290,000 jobs in April -- the biggest gain in four years -- but the nation's unemployment rate ticked up as thousands of Americans rejoined the labor force. The April gain topped the expectations of most analysts and… Continue reading
May 07 Watch Positive April Job Growth Tempered by Market Uncertainty in Europe Employers added 290,000 jobs last month, marking the biggest hiring increase in four years. Jeffrey Brown talks to two financial experts about the pace of the economic recovery and gets an update from Susie Gharib of PBS's Nightly Business Report… Continue watching