Arbeitslosenzahlen stiegen um 43000 im September laut Report des Labour Departments,endgültige Zahlen Freitag
The economy will probably expand at a 2.2 percent annual rate this quarter, down from a 3.6 percent pace in the third quarter, according to the October Blue Chip Economic Indicators consensus forecast.U.S. payrolls fell by 43,000 in September, a Labor Department report showed, and the economy probably failed to add jobs in October, according to the median of 61 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey. The share of consumers planning to buy an automobile fell to 6.8 percent, the lowest since June 2001. The share planning to buy a house fell to 3.1 percent, the lowest since September 2000, when the average rate on a 30-year mortgage was slipping from a five- year high of 8.64 percent set in mid-May 2000.