The 2007 holiday shopping season is turning out to be the weakest in years after retailers across-the-board reported deep declines in their December sales Thursday.

Sometimes when it rains, it pours on Wall Street. And next week, forecasters are calling for a flood.

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Stocks gained ground at the start of trading Monday on lower oil prices and talk that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates again.

Word is that President Bush may propose new measures to boost the economy by the time he gives his State of the Union address later this month.

Stocks tanked Friday, with the Dow shedding over 250 points, after a weaker-than-expected December jobs report exacerbated recession fears.

Employers added far fewer jobs in December while the unemployment rate shot up to a two-year high, according to a government report Friday that showed a job market much weaker than Wall Street had expected.

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Stocks were little changed at the start of trading Wednesday, the first trading day of 2008, as investors took a wait-and-see approach to the first economic reports and indicators of the new year.