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November 8, 2012

U.S. economic outlook: Growing slowly

  • A brighter outlook among consumers is due, in part, to a steady increase in home prices, and banks are also more likely to lend freely when home prices rise.
    • By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
    AP Economics Writer

    WASHINGTON — Some reward.

    Here's the assignment President Barack Obama has won with his re-election: Improve an economy burdened by high unemployment, stagnant pay, a European financial crisis, slowing global growth and U.S. companies still too anxious to expand much.


     
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