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Deals no match for news of recession

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Grizzly_Bear_Alaska.jpgIt's official: The U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, nonprofit research organization, said on Monday. The dour announcement helped scare investors out of a broad range of stocks including the automotive, technology and finance sectors. Overall, the Dow dropped 679.95, or 7.70%, to 8,149.09 while the Nasdaq fell 137.50, or 8.95%, to 1,398.07. The sell-off ended five consecutive days of gains.

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Citigroup Inc. fell 22% after an announcement that its infrastructure fund would buy a Spanish highway-operating firm for more than $10 billion. Meanwhile, General Motors Corp. dropped 8% on a Wall Street Journal report that it is trying to swap debt for equity.

On the tech front, Microsoft Corp. dropped 8% on reports that it offered $20 billion for Yahoo! Inc.'s search business. While the deal news was no match for the recession reports for most stocks, deal news sent Yahoo! up 8% on the Microsoft rumor. - Gerald Magpily

 





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From: Payday Loans,

Economic troubles of the United States of America weren’t started by payday loans, to be sure. The official start time of the current recession was December 2007, according to the NBER. The NBER, or the National Bureau of Economic Research, has identified December 2007 as the peak time from where the US has declined ever since. The NBER defines recession as a period of time featuring “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in production, employment, real income, and other indicators.” The NBER is considered one of the best authorities on economic research, trusted by the government, the private sector, and academia, so this is about as official as you get. The biggest criteria are employment, income, industrial output, and sales figures. The peak time for income and employment were in December of 2007, industrial output peaked in January 2008, and then sales peaked in June. Congress, especially Democrats, weren’t exactly surprised, and called for a stimulus package. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said that “The announcement simply makes official what we have long known: with rising costs, rising unemployment, record foreclosures and depleted savings, we must do more to help families make ends meet.” Not rolling over and granting the banks’ wish to ban payday loans would be a good idea, too. Bear in mind that economies work in cycles, booms and busts. The expansion that just ended lasted from November 2001 to December 2007, for 73 months. The record is 120 months, but most expansions last an average of 57 months since the end of World War II. For more info on Payday Loans, click the link.


From: Samuel X. ,

Recession when this times of economic activity turning down they seem to be that they are declining the economic activity of the certain livelihood project troop look like if you avoided getting payday loans but then found out you bounced a check and found out that was much more expensive. This also applies to deflation. Deflation results in lower prices and increases the value of money. The bad part: You are going to really need those lower prices when you lose your job because your employer cut production to meet competitive prices. Not such a pretty picture. But there is good news, just like payday loans can be good news for people seeking to avoid late fees or overdraft charges. The good news is there’s a very small chance that this recession will lead to deflation. Most economists agree that we will probably not see deflation any time soon. But the Feds say things will get worse before they get better, so in the meantime, payday loans can help if you have a financial emergency.



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