Stock prices plunged in a broad sell-off Thursday amid renewed fears about the finances of countries and banks in Europe in a return of the investor skittishness that led to last week’s wild market swings. While there was no one trigger for the market plunge, a spate of gloomy numbers and the return of panic selling reawakened fears of another recession. Bleak numbers for U.S. jobs, housing and manufacturing compounded the anxiety over European woes , rattling share prices in every industry, and indicated again that the economic recovery remains fragile. Read full article > >

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Stock markets are walloped by another sell-off as fears of recession build

The Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says the US economic recovery will rebound in the coming months.

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The global economic recovery has “solidified” but risks to growth still remain, the International Monetary Fund says.

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The missing piece of the U.S. economic recovery – job creation – is finally falling into place.

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Chancellor George Osborne dubs Labour and the unions “the forces of stagnation” – claiming they are holding back economic recovery.

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Design could be a “powerful driver” for economic recovery and improvement in public services, crossbench peer Lord Birchard has said.

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Peer calls for cross-government design strategy

Economic recovery will be “unevenly spread” across the country with some cities needing extra government help to create jobs, research suggests.

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As a key piece of President Obama’s signature tax-cut package begins boosting paychecks this month, American workers will confront a critical question that could determine the pace of the country’s economic recovery: Spend or save?

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The high price of oil threatens to derail the economic recovery among developed nations, the International Energy Agency warns.

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Oil price ‘is risk to recovery’