Business news in brief
Posted: August 21, 2009 at 5:04 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "Consumer spending is going to have a very difficult time recovering with the labor market as weak as it is." Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at MFR Inc.
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