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Bedore predicts for 2006...
Jan 9, 2006
The year's only a week old, but prognosticators are already figuring out what lies ahead in 2006. At least one market analyst's betting the Dow will hit 13,000. But comedian/commentator Tim Bedore thinks most economic predictions tend to be wrong. He's got a few of his own...
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Buzz Word: "Market Timing"
Jan 6, 2006
Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Marketplace Money brings you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance - "Market Timing." You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?
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Unemployment's down, huzzah!
Jan 6, 2006
December's unemployment numbers dropped a tenth of a percent, and that's good news for the Bush Administration. Cheryl Glaser reports.
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Wait. How strong is that economy again?
Jan 6, 2006
Tess Vigeland talks with Standard and Poor economist David Wyss about last month's unemployment numbers. The Bush administration is touting the strength of the economy, but Wyss says that the numbers don't tell the whole truth.
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David Johnson checks in
Jan 6, 2006
Stockbroker David Johnson talks with Marketplace host Tess Vigeland about this week's ups and downs on the stock market. He's feeling more chipper than last week.
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Preschool teacher pay
Jan 6, 2006
Work and Family correspondent Sarah Gardner looks at why preschool teachers, on average, make less money than animal trainers.
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Unemployment in 2005
Jan 6, 2006
Business editor Cheryl Glaser takes a look at what the government's year-end unemployment stats are likely to say when they come out today, and what they could portend for 2006.
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NYSE trading licenses
Jan 5, 2006
As part of its transition to a publicly traded company, the New York Stock Exchange is now offering "trading licenses" rather than the clubby "seats" it once offered. As Stacey Vanek-Smith reports, they're a hot item.
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Fuzzy figures
Jan 4, 2006
Many companies listed in the S&P 500 factor company stock buybacks into quarterly earnings reports. The practice skews revenue reporting in the companies' favor, and as Bob Moon reports, it's completely legal.
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New Texans
Jan 4, 2006
As many as one-third of Katrina evacuees who fled to Texas plan to stay, according to a new study. Larry Schooler looks at what the new arrivals could mean to the economy of the Lone Star State.
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