... will issue the November jobless report next Friday. Merchants "have basically battened down the hatches," said Brian Bethune, U.S. economist for the consulting firm IHS Global Insight. Economists think the Labor Department is likely to ...

... season. But they viewed it as a temporary blip and not the start of a sustained recovery for the consumer sector. Brian Bethune, an economist at IHS Global Insight, predicted that consumer spending would fall at an annual rate of 2.5 percent ...

... 2.5 percent, some analysts say. When will it grow again? Maybe the final quarter of the year. For now, said Brian Bethune, economist at IHS Global Insight, "I think we can say we've gone through the most terrible part of the recession ...

... stretch well into 2010. - Advertisement - "I don't think we should oversell these flickers of improvement," said Brian Bethune, an economist with IHS Global Insight. "An actual recovery is still several months into the future it's not imminent ...

... probably would pay off some medical bills. Cichowski, 48, said he has had back surgery and is not working now. Brian Bethune, an economist at Global Insight, suggested that rebate checks go out to everyone who files an income tax return ...

... consumer sentiment with a rising possibility of a sharp pullback in spending later in 2008 or in early 2009," said Brian Bethune, chief U.S. financial economist at Global Insight. The 0.2 percent rise in personal incomes in April was the ...

... fell to a 10 month supply at the June sales pace, still high, but down from the peak of 11.2 months in March. Brian Bethune, chief U.S. financial economist at Global Insight, said despite the positive flickers in the housing report ...

... one person regulate the temperature in every single classroom. All these cutbacks may seem tough, but to economist Brian Bethune at the private forecasting Global Insight, it's about time. Only about half of all school kids ride the bus to ...

... consumers' disposable income took its biggest drop on record. In simpler words, "The train went off the tracks," said Brian Bethune, economist at IHS global Insight. Wall Street took comfort in the fact that it wasn't even worse. The Dow Jones ...

... months ago now seem like a distant memory. "Consumer price inflation has suddenly screeched into reverse," said Brian Bethune, economist at IHS Global Insight. "The inflation threat has disappeared from the radar screen." Worried about ...