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Rhode Island’s unemployment rate dropped to 0.1 percentage points to 9.8 percent in January, its lowest level since January 2009, the R.I. Department of Labor and Training reported Thursday.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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Household wealth in the U.S. climbed in the fourth quarter, propelled by a gain in home prices that is helping repair family finances.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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Rhode Island’s capital city successfully sold its $39.3 million general obligation road bond issue at lower than expected rates, Mayor Angel Taveras announced.
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By PBN Staff
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The number of Americans who filed for unemployment benefits declined to a six-week low, showing further improvement in the labor market.
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By Lorraine Woellert |
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New England’s economy activity continued to grow as 2013 started, “albeit slowly,” according to the Beige Book report released by the Federal Reserve Wednesday afternoon.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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Orders to U.S. factories fell in January by the most in five months, weighed down by a slump in demand for military hardware and commercial aircraft.
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By Alex Kowalski |
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Bristol County, Mass., foreclosure starts dropped 17.4 percent in January while finished foreclosures plummeted 86.7 percent compared with the first month of 2012, The Warren Group said Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose to its highest level ever, erasing losses from the financial crisis after a four-year rally fueled by the fastest profit growth since the 1990s and monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve.
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By Inyoung Hwang |
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Single-family home prices in the Providence-Fall River-New Bedford metro area rose 0.6 percent from January 2012 to January 2013, according to CoreLogic’s Home Price Index.
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By PBN Staff
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U.S. stock-index futures declined as growth slowed in China’s services industry and American lawmakers signaled federal spending cuts will continue for weeks before they can reach a budget resolution.
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By Inyoung Hwang and Sofia Horta e Costa |
