Economy News Feeds Feed Digest http://feed.informer.com/images/button3.gif http://feed.informer.com/ http://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/GZG3RCULXD.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ Reuters - Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt said on Friday he was confident about the United States' economic fundamentals in the long term despite a current rough patch and was quite optimistic about the future. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/bs_nm/usa_economy_kimmitt_dc Yahoo! News: Economy News http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/bs_nm/usa_economy_kimmitt_dc? Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_bi_ge/gas_prices"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080704/capt.1b36abd1b38f4866b5451e98b8a04da0.holiday_travel_camw105.jpg?x=84&y=130&q=85&sig=sg3yzEq2U6fHj3yZZQwFUQ--" align="left" height="130" width="84" alt="A sign displaying gas prices is seen in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 3, 2008. Fewer Californians are expected to travel during this year's Independence Day weekend because of record-high gas prices and high airfares, according to an AAA travel survey. (AP Photo/ Matt Sayles)" border="0" /></a>AP - Fireworks aren't the only thing skyrocketing on this Fourth of July. The price of gas has hit another all-time high.</p><br clear="all"/> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_bi_ge/gas_prices Yahoo! News: Economy News http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_bi_ge/gas_prices? Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.d7ea27e3b8094c7a93a5bfca3d82d201.economy_nybz164.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=UR9BibvaBYJ4bZvLK0irKw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="In this June 5, 2008 file photo, job seekers gather at the Los Angeles Mission for the 7th annual Employment and Training Collaborative of Hope Central Career Fair in Los Angeles. Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy's fragile state. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent, it was announced Thursday July 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)" border="0" /></a>AP - The nation lost jobs for a sixth month in a row in June, a storm of pink slips drenching this year's July Fourth holiday for more than 60,000 Americans and leaving thousands more worried about the future.</p><br clear="all"/> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy Yahoo! News: Economy News http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy? Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/ts_nm/g8_economy_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_04t034553_450x299_us_g8_activists.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=uPPuM5vvjnI4D41Qmb1t1A--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Police officers walk past an advertisement banner outside a pachinko pinball parlor reading 'Summit on Friday' in Sapporo on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, as part of the security measures ahead of the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit July 4, 2008. (Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - G8 leaders aim to present a united front against global inflation, driven by soaring oil and food prices, at a summit in Japan next week, but solving the problem requires more than just a strong message from rich nations.</p><br clear="all"/> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/ts_nm/g8_economy_dc Yahoo! News: Economy News http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/ts_nm/g8_economy_dc? Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_bi_ge/g8_economic_woes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080704/capt.8dffd599fb3844e697f78f7e9133a342.indonesia_japan_g8_summit_economic_woes_xkaj103.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=_xMSi9zkKI9SSRm0kQ1QlQ--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="In this May 26, 2008 file photo, a student protester hurls a rock at riot police officers during a protest against fuel price hikes in Jakarta, Indonesia. Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week.</p><br clear="all"/> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_bi_ge/g8_economic_woes Yahoo! News: Economy News http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_bi_ge/g8_economic_woes? Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080703/bs_afp/usbritaineconomypaulsoninflation"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080703/capt.cps.mxa50.040708004453.photo00.photo.default-379x512.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=iXZDhIeyI8phidHil.Zq.Q--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="Inflation, and not the credit crunch, is the biggest economic concern worldwide, especially in developing countries, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, pictured in June 2008, said in an interview Thursday.(AFP/File/Natalia Kolesnikova)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Inflation, and not the credit crunch, is the biggest economic concern worldwide, especially in developing countries, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in an interview Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080703/bs_afp/usbritaineconomypaulsoninflation Yahoo! News: Economy News http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080703/bs_afp/usbritaineconomypaulsoninflation? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:45 GMT Investor's Business Daily - 1 The 6th straight monthly payrolls drop was in line with forecasts, though April and May payrolls were revised lower. That bodes ill for the economy, but recessions typically have bigger job cuts. Unemployment stayed at 5.5%, defying forecasts for a dip after May's spike. Factories and home builders slashed staff. Rising jobless claims signal more job losses ahead. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20080703/bs_ibd_ibd/20080703top10 Yahoo! News: Economy News http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20080703/bs_ibd_ibd/20080703top10? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:38 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/fed_credit_crisis"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080627/2008_06_27t102346_450x299_us_usa_fed_minutes.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=EdFbpqPzN7sDIvJWyPWSlw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke waits to speak at Harvard senior class day in Cambridge, Massachusetts June 4, 2008. (Adam Hunger/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>AP - Wall Street companies sharply scaled back their borrowing from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over the past week while commercial banks boosted it slightly.</p><br clear="all"/> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/fed_credit_crisis Yahoo! News: Economy News http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/fed_credit_crisis? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:39 GMT AP - Higher oil prices caused service businesses to shrink in June, as falling new orders and rising costs hit the nation's coffee shops, paper mills and corner stores. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_bi_ge/economy_services Yahoo! News: Economy News http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_bi_ge/economy_services? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/usa_economy_taxis_gasoline_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_03t095100_450x334_us_usa_economy_taxis_gasoline.jpg?x=130&y=96&q=85&sig=hbaXOiD7khhhEpDshn.UlQ--" align="left" height="96" width="130" alt="A taxi driver fills his cab at a gas station on Manhattan's West Side as the price of crude oil rose past the record for the fifth day in a row, in New York, March 11, 2008. (Chip East/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Tired of pumping his cash right back into his gas tank, New York City taxi driver Mohammed Kalair says he is considering quitting his job and going back to his native Pakistan.</p><br clear="all"/> http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/usa_economy_taxis_gasoline_dc Yahoo! News: Economy News http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/economy/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/us_nm/usa_economy_taxis_gasoline_dc? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:51 GMT