FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, workers are shown at an Apple manufacturing plant in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)
Companies

Survey: US factories grow in August for third straight month

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Entrepreneurs

Business owners tap into savings to withstand pandemic

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2020, file photo, store closing signs are shown on a Stein Mart store in Salt Lake City. The government issues the jobs report Friday, Sept. 4, for August at a time of continuing layoffs and high unemployment. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
United States

US unemployment rate falls to 8.4% even as hiring slows

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Construction

US construction spending edges up tiny 0.1% in July

In this Jan. 27, 2020 file photo a worker pushes a cart past refrigerators at a Home Depot store location in Boston. On Thursday, June 25, orders to American factories for big-ticket goods rebounded last month from a disastrous May as the U.S. economy began to slowly reopen. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Money

Orders for big-ticket US manufactured goods jumped 11.2%

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2020 file photo, shoppers walk through the Valley Mall in Halfway, Md. U.S. consumer confidence fell for second straight month in August as a resurgence of virus cases in many parts of the country heightened pessimism about the economy. (Colleen McGrath/The Herald-Mail via AP, File)
Money

US consumer spending rose a moderate 1.9% in July

Pile of United States dollar USD banknotes. | Photo: Eugene Sergeev
Money

U.S. economy plunged an annualized 31.7% in second quarter

FILE - In this July 15, 2020, file photo, One-stop operator Vickie Gregorio with the Heartland Workforce Solutions talks to a jobseeker outside the workforce office in Omaha, Neb., as others seeking employment wait behind her. On Thursday, Aug. 20, the government reported that the number of workers applying for unemployment climbed back over 1 million last week after two weeks of declines. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
Money

Rise in jobless claims reflects still-struggling US economy

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Real Estate

With the economy sputtering, why is real estate soaring?

FILE - In this June 25, 2020 file photo, a price sign is displayed at a retail store as a store employee wears a mask while working in Niles, Ill. Small businesses are in limbo again as the coronavirus outbreak rages and the government’s $659 billion relief program draws to a close. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
Money

US retail sales rise for 3rd month but slowdown expected

This Monday, April 27, 2020, file photo shows a sale pending sign on a home in Mount Lebanon, Pa. The coronavirus pandemic helped shape the housing market by influencing everything from the direction of mortgage rates to the inventory of homes on the market to the types of homes in demand and the desired locations. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Real Estate

Home prices climb to record in pandemic as buyers seek space

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