September 2010

Tweet The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits declined last week but continued to drift in the same range they have been since November, according to a government report released Thursday. There were 453,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended Sept.18, down 16,000 from an upwardly revised 469,000 the previous week, [...]

Tweet Fannie Mae said serious delinquencies on single-family mortgages slid in July from June, the fifth-straight month of declines, further signaling that home-loan problems were on the downswing. A host of data have shown delinquencies easing this year as the U.S. economy heals. The number of serious delinquencies in Fannie’s portfolio – loans at least [...]

Tweet Business activity in the U.S. unexpectedly accelerated in September, a sign manufacturers are still at the forefront of the recovery. The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago Inc. said today its business barometer climbed to 60.4 in September, exceeding the highest estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, from 56.7 the prior month. Figures greater than [...]

Tweet The 10 safest U.S. cities for families with young children are not sleepy places, as you might suspect, but rather bustling ones on mostly the East or West coast, according to a scorecard to be released Wednesday. They include Boston, New York, San Francisco and Seattle, finds the study funded by Underwriters Laboratories, a [...]