Forecasters say businesses expect to boost hiring and capital spending in the 2010 1st halfBusinesses expect to boost hiring and capital spending in the first half of the year as the U.S. recovery from the recession slowly continues, according to a new survey. Since the fall of 2009 demand ...

A lot more Americans are feeling stressed out by debt this holiday season, raising the glum likelihood they'll behave like Scrooge rather than Santa. In fact, fully 93 percent say they'll spend less or about the same as last year, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Half of ...

Forecasters expect job losses to bottom out in 1Q 2010 but unemployment to remain highEconomists expect the joblessness that has weighed down the nation's economic recovery will start to slowly abate in 2010, but they predict consumers will continue to keep a tight rein on spending, according to a ...

The worst of US job losses are expected to be over by March 2010 as the economic grows after a long recession, a poll of business economists showed Monday. US economic growth in the fourth quarter of 2009 is expected to be 3.0 percent, rising to 3.2 percent ...