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September 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Thanks to a stagnant job market, worker incomes were flat in July, but that didn't restrain their spending tendencies.

August 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors dumped US equity mutual funds in July, generating a record stock fund outflow, according to an industry report.

August 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American jobless claims rose for the third week in a row - and cracked the key 400,000 level for the first time in...

August 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fewer hiring managers sought job candidates via a newspaper ad in July than the month before, according to a closely watched economic indicator.

August 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers appear to be inclined to lay off workers in the fall, according to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

August 26, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors dumped stock mutual funds at a record pace of $49 billion last month, as previous outflows turned into a raging torrent.

August 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recent market rallies have pumped a little lifeblood back into the average stock fund, which still lagged the S&P 500 according to mutual...

August 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total assets of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) dipped ever so slightly in July to $88.27 billion, according to data from the Investment Company Institute...

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers initiated 2,041 mass layoffs in July 2002 involving 245,457 workers, according to the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),...

August 22, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even the jobless claims numbers appeared to wilt in last week's heat, slipping slightly to 389,000, a drop of 2,000 from the week...

August 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As investors pulled money out of mutual funds in the second quarter, they poured a net $4.57 billion in assets into hedge funds,...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hedge funds' July performance was in the minus column, but it continued to outdistance the performance record of major US equity indexes, according...

August 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A sizable 0.7% hike in medical care costs helped nudge consumer inflation 0.1% higher in July, the US Department of Labor (DoL) reported.

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index fell by 1.35% in July 2002 , following up on June's 0.84% decline.

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) proved to be a solid investment last year - and beat out the broader US equity markets for...

August 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - First-time jobless benefits claims rose by a modest 6,000 last week, but people are still having trouble getting off the unemployment line.

August 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just how well did public, private and foundation/endowment plans fare in the tumultuous second quarter of 2002?

August 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - GenXers may have been portrayed as financial neer-do-wells, with better things to do than worry about careers or saving, but a new survey...

August 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In yet another indicator that the US economy has not yet completely shrugged off what ails it, US workers' productivity increased at a...

August 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock mutual fund investors took $1.9 billion out the funds for the week ending August 7, according to AMG Data Services.