Economy - Monday      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Construction employment may be 160,000 below what current data show, according to a study by Macroeconomic Advisers. The report comes amid debate over why construction employment has fallen only 0.6% since Sept. despite a double-digit drop in home building. Economists attribute the discrepancy to factors including undercounting and layoffs of illegal aliens who don&#39;t file for jobless benefits.
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Investor's Business Daily - 1 Big M&amp;A deals kicked off the shortened week as a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland launched a $96 bil bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro  , and Archstone-Smith  , a REIT, agreed to a $22.2 bil buyout by 2 equity groups. RBS&#39; offer for ABN topped Barclays  &#39; earlier $86.6 bil bid, but analysts said ABN&#39;s previous decision to sell LaSalle to Bank of America   clouded the deal.
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Investor's Business Daily - The National Assoc. of Realtors cut its &#39;07 outlook for the fourth consecutive month. Home resales will fall to 6.18 mil from last month&#39;s forecast of 6.29 mil and well below the initial 6.42 mil forecast. The median existing-home sales price will fall 1.3%, more than the previously forecast 1% slide. The median new-home price will fall 2.3% to $240,800, reversing the Jan. forecast for a 2% gain, NAR said.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Economic Cycle Research Institute&#39;s leading U.S. index edged down to 140.6 in the week ended Sept. 14 after climbing in the prior 2 weeks. The 4-week annualized growth rate ticked up to 0.4% from 0.3%, which was the lowest since last Oct. ECRI says readings would have to fall sharply negative before they&#39;d signal recession.
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Investor's Business Daily - There might come a day when U.S. investors don't have a hopeless crush on Chinese stocks, but that day won't come soon.
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Investor's Business Daily - What the credit crisis couldn't do to the private-equity market -- knock it to the canvas for a 10-count -- a looming recession might.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Mortgage Bankers Assoc.&#39;s mortgage applications index rose 5.5% in the week ended Sept. 7 as interest rates fell to the lowest since May. Analysts said tighter lending standards may be prompting borrowers to file more than one application. The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell 0.17 point 15 6.25%. The refi share of applications increased 0.7 point 15 42.1%.
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Investor's Business Daily - Domestic stock funds had a rough June, but managed to hold on to solid performance for the second quarter and year to date. Growth beat value for the month, quarter and year to date.
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Investor's Business Daily - When the U.S. began slowing last year some analysts began hoping for a trade-off.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Mortgage Bankers Association&#39;s applications index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.3% to 622.9 in the week ended Aug. 31, but multiple applications and refilings caused by recent credit problems may have played a role. Activity could slow on higher interest rates. The MBA said a dearth of demand for short-term loans sent 1-year ARM rates to 6.52%, near week-ago levels but well above longer-term rates. Average 30-year mortgages edged up to 6.42% from 6.41%. ARMs made up just 12.6% of applications in the week, down from more than 30% just a few weeks ago.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Business Roundtable, which includes the heads of some of the biggest U.S. companies, said its economic outlook index rose to 84.9, up from 81.9 in Q4 '06. In the Feb. 8-22 survey, 73% of CEOs polled expect sales to rise over the next 6 months vs. 69% in Q4. Capital spending plans also improved. But the net share of big firms planning to hire fell to 12% from 14%.
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Investor's Business Daily - Predictable may be boring, but it&#39;s preferred by Janus Enterprise Fund.
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Plus: IBM, Yahoo post high...AMD posts loss...Sony TV unit struggling...Nokia on upswing...Apple beats expectations.
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Investor's Business Daily - The president said he was disappointed that this week&#39;s economic talks failed to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. beef. China &quot;attaches importance&quot; to the resumption of U.S. beef imports, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said. But the World Organization for Animal Health classifies the U.S. as a &quot;controlled risk&quot; country for mad cow disease.
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Investor's Business Daily - Fund managers have to pick stocks, but fund firms have to pick the stock pickers.
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Investor's Business Daily - Foreign Threats: While we fret over our 401(k)s and whose fault it is that we bought houses we couldn't afford, the once-hibernating Russian bear is awake and up to some mischief.
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Investor's Business Daily - Recent data suggest the game is over in the Web-based social networking field, but that isn&#39;t stopping new new players from joining in.