Economy steady but job growth moderate
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Job creation improved in August, but employment is below 50-year average, giving fodder to Kerry and Bush.
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The job market looked much like the economy as a whole last month: subdued but strong enough.
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Employers added 132,000 jobs last month, a moderate pace slightly above what forecasters were expecting.
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The economy grew at a 0.7 percent annual pace in the first three months of this year, the weakest in more than four years but slightly better than previously estimated, data showed  on Thursday.
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Employers added 132,000 jobs in June, fewer than in May but consistent with an economy still shaking itself out of a slump.
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The economy logged decent but slower growth in the early summer as some consumers tightened their belts. Despite high energy prices, overall inflation remained fairly moderate.
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The economy grew at a faster clip in   the second quarter and inflation was slower than originally   reported, a government report said on Wednesday, suggesting the   Federal Reserve will keep interest rates steady.
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The economy may grow slowly the first half of this year, the Bush administration said yesterday, but it is not in recession.
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The economy probably added 150,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate held steady at 5.4%, a three-year low, according to a survey of economists.
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The U.S. economy added a modest  97,000 jobs in February, the smallest gain in two years, but  job growth in prior months was stronger than first thought and  the unemployment rate dropped, the government said on Friday,  easing fears over economic weakness.
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WASHINGTON -- The economy grew at a sluggish 2.2 percent pace in the final quarter of last year, much slower than initially thought as businesses tightened their belts amid fallout from the troubled housing and automotive industries.
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While its growth rate won't knock your socks off, at least there's generally still growth.
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The US economy should expand modestly in coming months as a healthy job market continues to trump weakness in housing prices, a gauge of future business activity showed yesterday.
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The economy should expand modestly in coming months as a healthy job market continues to trump weakness in housing prices.
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California's economy will grow at  a modest pace this year in an uneven recovery that will chip  away at an unemployment rate projected to remain higher than  the national average, according to a closely watched economic  forecast released on Wednesday.
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The economy added 97,000 jobs in February, the smallest gain in two years, but job growth in prior months was revised higher and the unemployment rate dropped, the government said on Friday in a report that eased fears over a sharp economic slowdown.
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The markets rose modestly in thin trading, helped by revised Commerce Department data that showed that economic growth remained reasonably strong.