CLEVELAND — Drivers are breathing a sigh of relief as gasoline prices plunge across the country. Gas below $1.50 a gallon has appeared in a few places in recent days, and the national average has dropped almost in half since July, to $2.18 a gallon.
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Dow Drops 5.7% Despite Signs of Thawing Credit
The malaise on Wall Street simply will not lift.
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Despite cheaper oil, a stronger dollar and looser credit, stock investors on Wednesday could not shake their fears about the […]
Oil Rises as Consumer Confidence Gains
Wall Street stocks ended mixed Tuesday as concerns about the path of Hurricane Gustav sent oil prices higher and offset a better-than-expected reading on consumer confidence.
Comments from the Federal Reserve about rising inflation added to the market’s uneasiness. The Fed’s release of minutes from its Aug. 5 meeting showed that the central bank […]
Lower Oil Prices Ignite Big Rally; Dow Is Up by 331
Oil prices touched a three-month low on Tuesday, the latest milestone in a steep reversal for commodity prices that sent stocks soaring and eased inflation concerns among investors and policy makers alike.
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ROUGHLY one year ago, I began weighing in on the turmoil in the subprime mortgage market and the resulting tremors in the financial sector — and I did some research.
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Prices of Food and Gas Take a Toll in Asia
JAKARTA, Indonesia — While prices have been rising in the United States and Europe, the biggest increases are being felt in Asia, and countries like India and Vietnam are already having to deal with double-digit inflation.
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Oil Decline and Fed Talk Buoy Investors
Wall Street finished sharply higher Tuesday as oil prices dropped for a second day and the Federal Reserve hinted at more help for the ailing financial system. The Dow Jones industrials gained more than 150 points, and all the major indexes were up more than 1 percent.
Crude prices tumbled $5.33 to settle at $136.04 a […]
To Avoid Stalling Out, G.M. Plumbs Its Resources
DETROIT — Like a gas-thirsty S.U.V. crawling to the pump, General Motors needs to fill up fast with cash.
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At Midyear, the Economic Pain Persists
Many policy makers and bankers said this credit mess was contained.
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Crude oil prices are up about 51 percent this year, settling at $140 a barrel Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, above, down 21 cents from Friday.
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This month, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, broke from the usually banal official pronouncements about the dollar to talk bluntly about the risks of inflation. He told an international conference that a weakening dollar had caused an “unwelcome rise” in inflation and pledged to guard against such dangers.
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