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davidmwessel

  1. Dow Jones closes ends day down nearly 280 points, erasing all of 2012 gains 1:08 PM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  2. Car & light truck sales in May: 13.8 mm units, seasonally adjusted, vs. 14.4mm units in Apri 12:44 PM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  3. Sampling of reader react to my wsj.com/capital column on hiring software. on.wsj.com/JF3SAz 12:12 PM Jun 1st via Twitter for BlackBerry®
  4. RT @TPM: WATCH: Jeb Bush criticizes Norquist anti-tax pledge tpm.ly/JXPkZB 8:48 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  5. RT @AP: Ireland backs EU's deficit-fighting treaty with 60.3 percent 'yes' vote, but nobody celebrates: apne.ws/JXFSVY -BW 8:17 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  6. RT @GeraldFSeib: Suddently all econ news is bad: US, Euro unemploymt up, stock market down, growth slowing, Asia slowing too. #election2012 7:54 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  7. RT @greg_ip: Swing states are doing better than the country; but can Obama exploit? My (pre-payrolls) take econ.st/LIZYT2 7:52 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  8. RT @Reddy: Yields on two-year German debt sank NEAGATIVE 0.012%. IInvestors pay Germany to look after their cash on.wsj.com/M7sKzN 7:39 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  9. RT @philizzo: Lots of interesting economists' tidbits: "This is what a jobless recovery looks like’ on.wsj.com/Llg3PO 7:04 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  10. DJIA down 158 after ISM report, had been down nealry 200 7:03 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  11. Manufacturing purchasing managers index from ISM 53.5, for May, down from 54.8 (djns) 7:01 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  12. RT @ThePlumLineGS: Awful jobs numbers are timed perfectly to Romney's new ad: wapo.st/KltUJA 6:37 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  13. RT @charlesforelle: Thank you, America, for taking a bit of the heat off Europe for a day. Much appreciated. 6:04 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  14. Don't hold back. ING economists on US jobs report: "awful" "fairly horrible" & "miserable" 5:52 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  15. RT @Nouriel: 77K jobs in April. 69K in May. Q2 GDP growth looks much weaker than the already weak 1.9% of Q1. US closer to stall speed 5:50 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  16. Unemployment rate 8.2% . Out of work for 1 year or more: 3.8 million in May, up 100k from April. 5:37 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  17. RT @carlquintanilla: 10-year US Treasury 1.46% 5:34 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  18. QE3 time? PCE inflation unchanged in April, up 1.8% year over year 5:32 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  19. RT @justinwolfers: Ugh. Revisions worse, still: March from +154k to +143k; April from 115k to 77k. 5:31 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  20. payrolls up only 69,000 in May 5:30 AM Jun 1st via TweetDeck
  • Name David Wessel
  • Location Washington, D.C.
  • Web http://www.wsj.co...
  • Bio I'm The Wall Street Journal's economics editor, and I write the Capital column, a weekly look at the economy.
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