Vital Signs for the Week of Oct. 3 (BusinessWeek) On

Vital Signs for the Week of Oct. 3 (BusinessWeek)
On tap: September employment report, business activity reports from the Institute for Supply Management, August factory orders, and more

Our pay-later culture (Arkansas News Bureau)
This was about as substantive as it gets on "Arkansas Week," the weekly news review program on state public television.

You had Warwick Sabin, transplanted New Yorker and hot-shot writer for the weekly Arkansas Times who was student body president at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and a Marshall Scholar in Europe before doing press work for Marion Berry and raising money for

Fitch to Discuss Hedge Funds, Auto Sector Outlook, Recovery Ratings, and CDO Trends (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Fitch Ratings will discuss the rapidly emerging role of hedge funds in global markets, provide a current outlook on the auto sector in light of rising energy prices, introduce its new default/recovery analysis, and feature a presentation on the collateralized debt obligation sector at two credit seminars to be offered next month in Chicago and New York.

Opening View: Reaction to Greenspan's Comments (Schaeffers Research)
It appears that Federal Reserve Chair, Alan Greenspan's "tame" words on the U.S. economy have lent a boost to futures at home and abroad this morning...( Read More )

Our pay-later culture (Arkansas News Bureau)
This was about as substantive as it gets on "Arkansas Week," the weekly news review program on state public television.

Consumer spending slumps in August (San Jose Mercury News)
Consumer spending plunged in August at the steepest rate since the September 2001 terrorist attacks as Hurricane Katrina slashed Americans' incomes, fanned inflation and caused $170 billion in losses from property damage, the government reported Friday in its first tally of the storm's economic effects.

Economy wobbles in wake of Katrina (Seattle Times)
Consumer spending fell in August at the steepest rate since the Sept. 11 attacks as Hurricane Katrina slashed Americans'...