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Of november. Sandy did not have that much of an impact on the numbers. Unemployment fell to the lowest level in nearly three years to 7. 7 . More people stopped looking for work, all together. Consumer sentiment, not as strong heading into the holidays. Preliminary index actually fell in december. Economists had to look for a slight increase. Investors continue to get out of apple. The tech giant having its worst week since they of 2010. Apple is in they are barking territory. Shortly after the ...

Will the payoff be worth of the pain . Well debate it. Are the Salvation Army bell ringer jobs only for sexy ladies. One man claims he was fired to make way for beautiful women. Is it unfair or Good Business . Even when they say its not it is always about money. Melissa all right. First lets take a look at the days market headlines. You would think the markets would stop getting faked out by the fiscal cliff optimism, would you . But apparently not. That and better than expected data from the Se...

Will the payoff be worth of the pain . Well debate it. Are the Salvation Army bell ringer jobs only for sexy ladies. One man claims he was fired make way for beautiful women. Is it unfair or Good Business . Even when they say its not it is always about money. Melissa all right. First lets take a look at the days market headlines. You would think the markets would stop getting faked out by the fiscal cliff optimism, would you . But apparently not. That and better than expected data from the Servi...

And the need to slim down is not unique to citi; its industry wide. A financial industry runs into huge problems. It happened in the 30s, and it happened in the last five years. When you go through these periods, you go through a lot of change. That industry is now trying to figure out what is the right size of the industry. Reporter still, economists say citis action today is not the start of a new wave of mass layoffs across corporate america. The nations job market may not be robust, but its ...

In Corporate America . Tom im tom hudson. President obama tries to win over top business leaders, warning republicans are holding the Global Economy hostage over the fiscal cliff. Susie and apple shares get of the most widely owned stocks sees heavy trading. Tom that and more tonight on n. B. R. Susie big job cuts today at one of the nations biggest banks. Citigroup announced its slashing 4 of its staff; that works out to 11,000 jobs worldwide. The cuts will save the bank more than 1 billion a y...

We begin the news tonight with some answers about that train traveling at 82 Miles Per Hour. What happened when the train hit the curve, the cars derailed and so many passengers were injured. There is new video tonight showing a closer look at the damage, the cars on their sides, the tracks mangled and destroyed and giant cranes lifted the cars upright. The black boxes on board now offering more clues to this story. Gio benitez goes in search of the answers. Reporter sources say human error is l...

We are close, very close right now, within our grasps, to becoming the leader of the world when it comes to technology, innovation, natural resources, and finance. You are the only thing standing in our way. You are our ball and you are our chain. We saw glimmers of it today. Like today dow rallies 40 points, s p gained. 33 , nasdaq. 52 . Whether its the ceos of the biggest of the big,or the smallest of the small. Tonights guest of Lumber Liquidators, the intransigence the meanspirited debates, ...

Cutting staff. And the need to slim down is not unique to citi; its industry wide. A financial industry runs into huge problems. It happened in the 30s, and it happened in the last five years. When you go through these periods, you go through a lot of change. That industry is now trying to figure out what is the right size of the industry. Reporter still, economists say citis action today is not the start of a new ve aofls crfe america. The nations job market may not be robust, but its not froze...

Than 1 billion a year in expenses. But they wont be cheap, resulting in a billiondollar charge against fourthquarter earnings. Is this gloomy news from citi the beginning of other companies doing the same . Suzanne pratt reports. Reporter 11,000 jobs are a lot of layoffs, even for a bank as huge as citi. And there could be more. Thats because the monster firm is still struggling to recover from the Great Recession even though it has fired a lot of other workers in the last few years. The thing i...

Points. The nasdaq declined. 77 largely because of apple, more on that later. Now, i am not dismissive of the negativity that see pretty much everywhere. Weve got a couple of real solid reasons to feel totally downbeat. First, i cant believe were still focusing on this washington thing. For five years weve had to keep one eye on washington, one eye on wall street. I remember whole tenyear stretches i didnt care what was happening down there. At the moment, we can barely focus on anything but was...