Tag Archives: Economy

  • News Jobs report

    Hiring remains steady in new jobs report

    The jobs recovery continued to crawl forward in January, as employers hired 157,000 workers, the Labor Department said Friday.

  • News Housing Prices

    Home prices post biggest jump in 6 years

    Home prices in 20 major U.S. cities were up 5.5% in November compared to a year earlier, their biggest jump in more than six years.

  • News money and coins

    Free Money: Some of $58 billion unclaimed could be yours

    Millions of Americans are missing out on billions in forgotten cash.

  • News

    More Virginian’s bought homes in 2012

    A new report from George Mason University shows the number of sales in each quarter of 2012 in Central Virginia surpassed those from 2011.

  • News Donald Trump

    Report: Trump wants to buy the New York Times

    Shares of the New York Times were slightly lower in early trading, suggesting that investors were not taking the report all that seriously.

  • News Jobs report

    Virginia jobless rate ticks down again

    The rate now sits at 5.5 percent down from 5.6 percent. That’s the lowest rate the commonwealth has had in four years.

  • News

    Consumers paid more in 2012

    Consumers paid modestly higher prices for gas, food and shelter in 2012, but overall inflation was more subdued than in 2011

  • News liberals pay more

    Store charges liberals more since nation has ‘fiscal problem’

    A Utah business owner is taking the political views of his customers into consideration when ringing up purchases, by charging liberals more!

  • News

    Raiding your 401K

    Some studies are showing one in four Americans are using 401K retirement money to pay for current expenses.

  • News Great_Lakes_from_space_crop_labeled

    Low water levels for Great Lakes could hurt economy

    Water levels in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron fell to record low levels for December, and are expected to break the all-time low sometime in the next few months.

  • News abc

    ABC stores net over $132 million in profits

    Virginia ABC stores sold more than $4 million cases of wine, spirits and liquor in 2012.

  • News stock market

    Stocks awake to fiscal cliff hangover

    The party is over on Wall Street.