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A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds little change in President George W. Bush's job approval rating, with 34% of Americans approving of his overall job performance. While quite low relative to other presidents' ratings, Bush's job approval has not ...

The gap between religious white Americans and whites who are not religious in terms of GOP identification and Bush approval is just as large today as it was in 2004. Highly religious white Americans remain one of the strongest pockets of support ...

The tepid holiday sales outlook is not good news for many retailers, particularly those serving lower- and middle-income consumers. But does the bad news also apply when it comes to higher-income consumers and the upscale retailers they shop? ...

The U.S. economy is grappling with an oil shock, economists are fretting over a “runaway budget deficit,” and pundits remind Americans at every opportunity that the United States does not have a clear exit strategy for a struggle in Iraq that ...

An array of factors -- from the continued hiring increases by firms to higher corporate profit reports -- may be influencing a renewed sense of optimism among investors. In the past, younger and less experienced investors have tended to be ...

There appears to be a major blind spot for many institutional investors and government regulators; many in this group seem to assume that the public’s reduced focus on corporate accounting issues means that the average investor is no longer ...

While two-thirds of investors expect the Fed to raise interest rates over the next three months, only about one-third believe such rate hikes are necessary. Fear of inflation may be influencing those results; three in five investors see ...

Results from the latest UBS/Gallup Index of Investor Optimism survey provide some indication of the extent to which the recent surge in gas prices has affected American investors.

The continuing decline of the world’s reserve currency makes for interesting times in the currency markets, and corporations have largely hedged their currency risks. The extent to which investors might have hedged their currency risks was not ...

Small businesses have always been a driving force in the growth of the U.S. economy and the major source of new job creation. The question for 2004, however, is whether small businesses can not only create their usual number of new jobs, but ...