UPDATE 2-US pension agency&#39;s deficit swells to $23.3 bln
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The deficit at the federal agency that rescues failed US corporate pensions more than doubled to $23.3 billion in fiscal year 2004, officials said on Monday, with analysts largely blaming bankrupt airlines.
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The annual US trade deficit rises to a  record $763.6bn, hit by higher oil prices and surging Chinese imports.
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WASHINGTON : The US government is expected to run a record 422-billion-US-dollar deficit for the fiscal year to September 30, the Congressional Budget Office revealed.
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The federal deficit surged to a record $413 billion in 2004, the Treasury Department announced Thursday, injecting the figure into a presidential campaign in which the two
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The US budget deficit expanded to a record $413 billion in the 2004 fiscal year, according to revised numbers, the Treasury Department said Thursday.
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The deficit jumped by 9.3 percent, to $63.1 billion,  the government said, reflecting record oil imports. The deficit with China declined while the weak dollar lifted exports to a record high.
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The federal budget deficit will balloon to $2.29 trillion over the next decade, a worse outlook than previously forecast according to a new report by congressional analysts, a congressional source with knowledge of the numbers said
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The US government budget deficit will be a record 422 billion dollars for the fiscal year to September 30, the Congressional Budget Office said.
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Struggling under a cascade of bankruptcy filings in the airline and steel industries, the government's pension insurance agency said Monday that its deficit has more than doubled in the past year -- to $23.3 billion.
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The surplus in February was $23.76 billion, a statistic that is likely to add to tensions with the United States.
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WASHINGTON - The federal deficit will swell to a record $422 billion this election year but fall short of even more dire forecasts, Congress' top budget analysts projected Tuesday in a report that became instant fodder for both political parties.    The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the shortfall would shrink to $348 billion next year - still the third worst ever in dollar terms...
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Iin about 15 years, and probably less, this nation&#39;s retirement system will start to run a deficit, according to the Social Security&#39;s trustees.
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The government will today face intense pressure to signal a shift away from means-tested pensions in the face of the independent Turner commission report&#39;s startling finding that Britain faces a Â£57bn annual pensions gap.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to allow workers and retirees to find out from a federal agency just how severe the shortfalls are in their companies' pension plans.
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WASHINGTON: The deficit at the federal agency that rescues failed US corporate pensions more than doubled to $23.3 billion in fiscal year 2004, officials said on Monday, with analysts largely blaming bankrupt airlines.
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The deficit in the broadest measure of trade climbed to a record high of $164.7 billion in the third quarter of this year, reflecting Americans' hardy demand for imported oil and foreign-made goods.
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Facing record budget deficits, the Bush administration likely will turn to short-term government borrowing to help finance its plan to add personal retirement accounts to Social Security, officials said on Saturday.