Reuters - An online gauge of U.S. labor demand rose in April, reflecting more job offerings in the accommodation and food services industry from heavy seasonal hiring, a private research group said on Thursday.

AP - The country is bracing for more bad news on the jobs front.

Reuters - Warren Buffett, the world's richest person, said on Sunday the U.S. economy is in recession, 'as I define it.'

Reuters - UAL's United Airlines is mulling asking its banks to rejig the terms of its credit facility in an effort to get crucial financial flexibility, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

BusinessWeek Online - With home prices continuing to drop and the pace of home sales slowing further, nobody has been looking for encouraging results from homebuilders.

AFP - The credit crisis that has scorched international financial markets is on the wane but more shocks are ahead, US Secretary Treasury Henry Paulson told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Wednesday.

Reuters - The number of U.S. workers filing claims for initial jobless benefits fell more than expected last week, according to a report on Thursday that suggested the labor market, while soft, was not deteriorating rapidly.

AP - The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in March as demand for imports fell by the largest amount since the last recession was ending.

AP - The federal government ran a budget surplus of $159.3 billion in April, smaller than a year ago.

Reuters - Consumers will use much of their tax rebate money to pay for increasingly expensive gas and groceries, rather than spend it on electronics or clothes, said the most recent survey by the National Retail Federation.

Reuters - U.S. home foreclosure filings in April edged up from March and were a whopping 65 percent higher than a year earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Wednesday.

AP - Oil prices dropped below $124 a barrel Thursday in Asia after the U.S. government issued a mixed report on the country's petroleum reserves.

AP - The world economy is 'teetering on the brink' of a severe downturn and is expected to grow only 1.8 percent in 2008, the United Nations said in its mid-year economic projections Thursday.

Reuters - Stock markets are up sharply since March. The recent batch of economic data has not looked as dire as feared. The U.S. Federal Reserve is finding fewer takers for its loan auctions. A fine-art sale drew a record $86 million price for a Francis Bacon painting.

AP - First the good news: The worst of the painful housing slump and the credit crunch might come to an end this year. Now the bad: The economy will weaken further and unemployment will rise.

AP - Inflation at the wholesale level slowed in April following a huge increase in March although prices for a number of items from prescription drugs to pasta shot upward.

AP - The beige 2003 Honda Civic sat on Mike Haile's used car lot in Atlanta for only three days before he sold it for $8,200. And that was $300 more than the asking price.

Reuters - The number of U.S. workers filing initial claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly fell 9,000 last week, the government said on Thursday, while the overall number of workers on the benefit rolls held at a four-year high.

AFP - Sales of existing US homes, the largest segment of the housing market, fell one percent in April from March, a real-estate industry group said Friday, citing tighter lending practices.

Reuters - The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper than many people expect, U.S. investor Warren Buffett said in an interview published in German magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday.

AP - Soaring fuel prices are proving to be a pain for most people in the country, but they may have helped save the jobs of hundreds of workers in North Dakota's oldest town.

AFP - A recession in the United States remains a probability, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said in an interview published Tuesday.

Reuters - Prices of U.S. single-family homes plunged a record 14.1 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, marking a pace five times faster than the last housing recession, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case Shiller national home price index reported on Tuesday.

Reuters - Inflation is rising globally because of an easy monetary policy, especially in the United States, leading economist and former U.S. Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs John Taylor said on Wednesday.

AP - The dollar rose against the yen Thursday in Asia as investors took heart from better-than-expected U.S. durable goods orders.

Reuters - Business activity in New York City grew in May for the first time in four months, helped in part by easing worry over credit conditions, according to an industry report released on Friday.

AP - Feeling woozy about the fortune you've just pumped into your gas tank? Drivers around the world share the sensation.