Mass. growing slower, steadier than in 2000
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The Massachusetts economy was in a very different place yesterday than it was in early 2000, when the Dow Jones industrial average set its previous record close of 11,722.98 , local analysts said.
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Massachusetts' recovery picked up speed in October as an improving job market and strong consumer spending propelled the state's economy to one of its best performances since early 2000, the University of Massachusetts reported yesterday.
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The economy lost steam in the late summer but not nearly as much as first thought, a hopeful sign the country is weathering the housing slump.
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Safer cars and a boomlet of more cautious drivers are nudging auto insurance rates down across the nation, but industry officials say prices appear to be falling even faster in Massachusetts.
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Despite its reputation as a liberal Democratic bastion, Massachusetts has not elected a Democratic governor since 1986. Democrats believe that's all going to change this fall.
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A closely watched survey of business activity in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region showed evidence of some slowing in the country's economic expansion on Thursday, but an index used to gauge future growth gave more hopeful signals.
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WASHINGTON -- Economic growth clocked in at a 2.6 percent pace in the spring, a weaker performance than previously estimated and a fresh sign the economy has shifted into a lower gear.
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The U.S. economy grew more slowly in  the second quarter than first thought amid shrinking corporate  profits and higher imports, the government said on Friday in a  report that confirmed momentum faltered in the spring.
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A slowdown in U.S. economic growth during the second quarter of the year was not as sharp as previously thought, the Commerce Department reported on Wednesday, partly because businesses built up inventories at the strongest rate in four years.
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The Massachusetts housing market will remain in a slump, and by the time it hits bottom about a year from now, prices will have dropped 14 percent from the peak in 2005, according to an economic forecast released yesterday.
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The U.S. economy grew at a  weaker-than-expected 3.1 percent annual pace in the final  quarter last year, its slowest since the beginning of 2003 as  the country's trade performance deteriorated and inflation  picked up, a government report on Friday showed.
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The spring real estate market was a washout. Home sales in Massachusetts tumbled as much as 8 percent in June, and prices also dropped during that key month in the real estate cycle, according to two reports yesterday, virtually ensuring that 2007 is going to be another down year in the industry.
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The slowdown may signal that the economy is shifting down a notch from its unexpectedly robust pace of growth at the end of last year.
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THE REGION Union representation in Massachusetts dropped to 13.5 percent of the employed last year, down from 416,000 or 14.2 percent in 2003, according to information released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the same time, the number of employed workers in Massachusetts dropped to 2.92 millon, from 2.93 million in 2003. The federal agency reported that across the ...
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The economy could be headed for slower growth in the next several months, according to a report released Thursday by a private research group.
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The U.S. economy grew at a  weaker-than-expected 3.1 percent annual pace in the final  quarter of 2004, its slowest since the beginning of 2003 as the  country's trade performance deteriorated and inflation picked  up, a government report on Friday showed.
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The US gross domestic product grew only 2.2 percent last quarter.