WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve, caught between mounting job losses and rising inflation, is likely to sit tight and hope that the interest rate cuts it has already provided will be enough to heal a sick economy.

No self-respecting financial journalist these days turns down the opportunity to link the most spurious phenomena to the credit crunch, so it was pleasing to see research from Travelodge associating sleep deprivation with global economic turmoil.

Business Roundtable today will convene CEOs, Members of Congress and leaders of community colleges to focus on the critical role community colleges must play in enhancing American competitiveness. Their role, from improving worker training to tapping and

German business confidence took another blow Thursday, April 24, as the rise of the euro and soaring commodities prices contributed to a steeper-than-expected decline and fears of an economic slowdown.

Shocks in the housing, stock and commodity markets continue to dampen the economy but it will pick up next year, the president of the San Francisco Federal reserve said Monday.