In November, 26.4% of consumers said they expect their financial situation to be "somewhat better off" or "much better off" in a year, down from 27.5% a month earlier. That matches a recent low from ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British businesses turned more pessimistic in January, extending a run of falling corporate confidence to five months, but there were some more hopeful views about trading prospects ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The economic sentiment is "exceedingly glum" all around the world as the public mood has worsened since 2008, with the global economic crisis "widely eroding" support for capitalism.

Consumers' expectations of long-run inflation held steady in August, while gloom about the labor market grew, according to a survey by the New York Fed. Over the next year, consumers forecast that ...

It's nearly Christmas and executives are predicting a lump of coal for 2009. Two separate surveys show gloom extending well into the new year and perhaps beyond. One survey shows that 81 percent of ...

The smaller BLS survey shows that 265,000 jobs were lost in February. Investors assessing the dismal labor market might be worried to learn of the even bleaker picture painted Friday by the Labor ...

The last time this happened, Patrick Jankowski’s world went upside down. This, of course, is the last time the economy went south, in the mid-1980s, when the oil bust crushed the Houston area.

Technology buyers are more pessimistic about a recovery in information technology spending following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a Merrill Lynch survey of 50 U.S. and European chief ...

Most Peninsula business executives – unlike those elsewhere in the country – see worse times coming, a local survey shows. According to a quarterly survey by Christopher Newport College’s Bureau of ...