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Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout

But for a travel industry still stinging from the Great Recession, the best it can likely hope for is another summer of steady, but slow, recovery.

Median CEO pay rises to $9.7 million in 2012

CEO pay, which fell two years straight during the Great Recession but rose 24 percent in 2010 and 6 percent in 2011, has never been higher.

Pew survey questions Gen X, baby boomer savings

A research report by the Pew Charitable Trusts says younger baby boomers and Generation Xers face an uncertain retirement because of reduced savings, high levels of debt, and losses during the...

While Wall Street soars, jobs market still scarred

The unemployment rate in April was 7.5 percent, two full percentage points below where it stood at the end of the Great Recession in June 2009.

Dow closes above 15,000 for first time; what next?

Paulsen says investors are shedding their fear following the stock market slump that accompanied the Great Recession.

US casino revenue up nearly 5 percent in 2012

Commercial casinos in the U.S. have made it almost all the way back from the hard times of the Great Recession.

US housing perks up, but too few homes for sale

A handful of other cities remain depressed nearly four years after the Great Recession ended.

US job market showing gains, but healing is slow

The U.S. still has 2.6 million fewer jobs than it had when the Great Recession began in December 2007.

US economic reports hold out hope for hiring gains

More jobs would spur spending and help energize the economy, which has yet to regain full health nearly four years after the Great Recession officially ended.

Housing rebound is facing obstacle: Too few homes

A handful of other cities remain depressed nearly four years after the Great Recession ended.

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Nevada had blamed California for favoring strict environmental controls that they said stifled...

NEW YORK: Summer travel forecast: Better, but no blowout

For a travel industry still stinging from the Great Recession, that likely means another summer...

WASHINGTON: FDIC shutters small bank in Arizona

U.S. bank closures have been declining since they peaked in 2010 in the wake of the financial...