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Formula shows why it’s so hard to cut jobless rate (AP)

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FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2010 file photo, job applicants fill out forms at a job fair in Santa Clara, Calif. The Federal Reserve and outside economists think it will take until around the middle of the decade to lower the double-digit jobless rate to a more normal 5 or 6 percent. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)AP – The economy’s 5.7 percent growth last quarter — the fastest pace since 2003 — was a step toward shrinking the nation’s 10 percent unemployment rate.



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Are stocks set for a down year? (Reuters)

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange January 28, 2010. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidReuters – The adage “as January goes, so goes the year” bodes ill for equity investors after the S&P 500 closed out its worst month in almost a year. This week, they will have to contend with fears of sovereign defaults and potential unpleasantness in the U.S. labor market as well.


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Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget heading to Congress (AP)

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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama delivers the first State of the Union address of his presidency on Capitol Hill in Washington. To the joint session of Congress Obama said, 'So, as temperatures cool, I want everyone to take another look at the plan we've proposed...  if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors and stop insurance company abuses, let me know... I'm eager to see it.' Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are seen in the background.  (AP Photo/Tim Sloan, Pool, File)AP – The Obama administration on Sunday endorsed spending an additional $100 billion to attack painfully high unemployment as it prepared to send Congress a $3.8 trillion budget that would provide billions more to pull the country out of the Great Recession while increasing taxes on the wealthy and imposing a spending freeze on many government programs.



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Problems at Toyota, JAL taint Japan Inc.’s image (AP)

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In this Jan. 28, 2010 photo, a visitor leaves a Toyota Motor Corp. showroom in Tokyo, Japan. Toyota is the latest in a string of corporate Japanese icons to make headlines for all the wrong reasons.  (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP – Toyota is the latest Japanese corporate icon making headlines for all the wrong reasons.



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5-day Davos forum ends on note of humility (AP)

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From left, Senior Managing Editor for the Associated Press Michael Oreskes, Chairman of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann, Chairman and CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, USA, Patricia Woertz, Chairman of Wipro, India, Azim Primji, Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Bank, UK, Peter Sands and Chairman and CEO of Aetna, USA, Ronald Williams during a session 'A Roadmap to Sustainable Recovery' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)AP – The world’s foremost gathering of business and government leaders wrapped up a five-day meeting Sunday with widespread agreement that a fragile recovery is under way but no consensus on what’s going to spur job growth and prevent another global economic meltdown.



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