Sales prices for Tampa Bay area homes continued to plummet last month as buyers recoiled from October's financial wreckage on Wall Street. ...more

December 24, 2008

Retailers are suffering through one of the most difficult holiday seasons in years, slashing prices by 70 percent and 80 percent and offering other deals in a desperate effort to ring up more sales. ...more

December 24, 2008

As the longest recession in a quarter century intensifies, analysts think the small decline in economic activity in the third quarter has worsened significantly in the current fourth quarter. ...more

December 24, 2008

Prices for Bay area homes continued to plummet in November as buyers recoiled from October's financial wreckage on Wall Street. ...more

December 23, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - An alarming half-million American jobs vanished virtually in a flash last month, the worst mass layoffs in over a third of a century, as economic carnage spread ever faster and the U.S. hurtled toward what could be the hardest hard times since the Great Depression. ...more

December 7, 2008

A record one in 10 American homeowners with a mortgage were either at least a month behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of September as the source of housing market pressure shifted to the crumbling U.S. economy. ...more

December 6, 2008

An alarming half-million American jobs vanished last month, the worst mass layoffs in more than a third of a century, as economic carnage spread ever faster and the nation hurtled toward what could be the hardest hard times since the Great Depression. ...more

December 6, 2008

WASHINGTON (AP) - The worst monthly drop on record for retail sales set off new alarm bells about the U.S. economy Friday, stepping up pressure on policymakers to figure out how to combat what increasingly looks to be a severe recession. ...more

November 16, 2008

The worst monthly drop on record for retail sales set off new alarm bells about the economy Friday, stepping up pressure on policymakers to figure out how to combat what increasingly looks to be a severe recession. ...more

November 15, 2008

Up to 60 percent of homes selling in Florida's hardest-hit markets are distressed properties, and consumers who bought at the height of the market will have to wait up to seven years before values rise to their original prices, a top industry economist said Friday. ...more

November 8, 2008