Apr 10 Poland Reels After Leader Dies in Plane Crash By Maureen Hoch The president of Poland -- along with a cadre of top military and civilian leaders -- died Saturday morning when his plane crashed on approach to an airport in western Russia. Continue reading
Apr 08 Watch Ex-Citigroup Chiefs Express Regret for Role in Financial Crisis Former Citigroup executives apologized before members of Congress for their company's involvement in the global financial crisis. Jeffrey Brown talks to the chairmen of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission about their ongoing inquiry. Continue watching
Apr 02 U.S. Adds 162,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Remains 9.7% Khalifah Varnado reads employment information at a job expo in Arizona earlier this week. (Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images.) The U.S. economy showed signs of life in March as employers added the most workers to their payrolls in three… Continue reading
Apr 02 Watch Florida Struggles to Keep Up With Demands on Unemployment System In the latest in a series of reports making sense of the economy, Paul Solman examines troubles for both those receiving and those paying for jobless benefits in Florida, where jobless rates are the sixth highest in the country. Continue watching
Apr 02 Cash-Strapped States Labor to Fund Jobless Benefits By Online DA With 20 million Americans collecting jobless benefits, unemployment insurance systems around the nation are rapidly drying up. Can cash-strapped states handle the demand?… Continue reading
Mar 30 Watch Peru Nurtures Growth Amid Economic Uncertainty In the first part of a series on Peru, Ray Suarez reports on a growing and business friendly environment in a country rebounding from economic instability and deep debt just twenty years ago. Continue watching
Mar 26 Obama to Announce Major Expansion of Mortgage Relief Program Updated 11:00am ET The Treasury Department has posted this press release with more details on the mortagage aid plan. With estimates showing more than 3 million households may file for foreclosure by year's end, the Obama administration is… Continue reading
Mar 23 Coming Soon to Hollywood: Movie Derivatives Moviegoers will soon be able to decide which films to see based not on stars or tomatoes, but on how well they're being traded by investors. Two investment firms are working to develop a futures market for movie derivatives that… Continue reading
Mar 16 Fed Holds Key Interest Rate Near Zero The Federal Reserve repeated its pledge on Tuesday to hold its key interest rate near zero "for an extended period." In a statement, the central bank said, "Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests… Continue reading