Gold is trading up nicely today. Gold prices have moved up $9.50 an ounce today to $1,114.0o an ounce. As the recession has hit the dollar hard, gold prices have been steadily moving higher, and it looks to close out the first quarter with its sixth consecutive quarterly gain. The dollar has been pretty weak, and continued to move lower today on news that the economy shed more jobs during March that ...

We have been hearing a lot of rumors that the recession is finally over, and we get another hint at this today with a new report that the majority of economists believe that the recession has ended but econonic recovery is going to be slow. According to a poll by National Association for Business Economics, 80% of economists that it polled stated that they believe the recession has ended and the ...

The Labor Department released September unemployment figures today, and as expected unemployment was up once again in the month. The currently unemployment level is now running at 9.8%, highest since June 1983. With an additional 263,000 additional job losses during the month, the total number of Americans out of work now sits at 15.1 million, and gives further evidence that the recession continues to inflict pain.

March was another tough month for employees, as recession fears in America led to 80,000 jobs being slashed across the country. Looking at total unemployment, the unemployment rate for the country rose from 4.8% up to 5.1%. This could be one of the biggest signals that the country has already been contracting. This is the highest rate that the country has seen since back in September 2005 when the country was ...