Telegraph - 11/21/2009 digital edition

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Abbott .........................53.64
Amcore.............................52
AltriaCorp ...................18.98
Automation.................17.78
AMR...............................5.47
Arris-Group.................10.08
APAC .............................5.52
Apple.........................199.92
ADM ............................31.62
AT&T ...........................26.02
Boeing .........................51.70
BorgWarner ................30.91
BPAmoco ....................57.83
Casey's ........................30.79
Caterpillar...................57.95
ChevronTexaco.......... 76.77
Citigroup.......................4.20
CNW............................31.07
CocaCola.....................57.48
ConAgra ......................22.35
DaimlerChrysler ........ 52.09
Dean............................16.12
Deere & Co..................50.83
Disney .........................30.01
Donaldson ..................44.12
DuPont........................34.51
EastmanKodak............. 4.01
Exxon ..........................74.38
Ford.............................. 8.64
Exelon .........................46.81
GE................................15.59
FifthThird......................9.97
HawaiianElectric ....... 19.14
HomeDepot ................27.18
IBM........................... 126.96
IntlPaper .....................24.89
JCPenney.....................29.43
JohnsonControls ........26.86
Johnson&Johnson ..... 62.31
Kroger .........................22.86
Leggett&Platt ............. 19.53
Manpower...................49.69
McDonald's ................63.97
Merck&Co ...................36.46
3M ...............................76.64
Monsanto....................80.08
Newell .........................14.45
Nicor ...........................38.57
Nike.............................63.92
Parker-Han..................53.98
Pepsico........................62.08
Procter&Gamble........ 61.80
RaymondJames.......... 25.40
Rex...............................13.05
Republic..................... 27.40
SaraLee........................12.49
Sears Hldg...................72.64
SensientTech ............. 25.72
Sprint ............................3.76
TheTravelers............. 52.38
UnitedAirlines ............. 7.02
UnitedTech.................67.97
USBancorp..................23.29
USSteel .......................41.32
Walgreen.....................38.97
WalMartStores............54.28
WasteMgt....................32.30
Wendy's ........................4.11
Money & Markets
States add jobs, but many are temporary
Unemployment
rate nationally is
highest in 26 years
WASHINGTON (AP) �
In a sharp improvement,
more than half of U.S.
states added jobs in Octo-
ber, though economists
said many of the gains
likely occurred in tempo-
rary employment.
That's customarily a
positive a sign. Employ-
ers usually hire tempo-
rary workers before they
add full-time jobs. But in
this case, the temporary
hiring may be inflated
by the auto sector, which
has boosted produc-
tion to replace depleted
inventories. As a result,
the increase might not be
sustainable.
Some of last month's
job gains also were in sec-
tors such as education,
health care and govern-
ment, which have fared
relatively well during the
recession. By contrast,
there's little evidence
that companies in hard-
hit industries are hiring
permanent staff.
Overall, 28 states added
jobs in October. That's
up from only seven in
September and eight in
August. It's also the larg-
est number to record
increases since 33 states
did so in February 2008,
according to the Eco-
nomic Policy Institute, a
thinktank.
"It's a positive signal
... that states are mixed
rather than uniformly
bad," said Jim Diffley,
a regional economist at
IHS Global Insight. Pre-
vious reports have all
been "doom and gloom,"
he said.
Many states that added
jobs still saw an increase
in their unemployment
rates. The figures for jobs
andunemploymentcome
from separate reports.
The unemployment rate
is calculated from a sur-
vey of households, while
the jobs count comes
from a survey of busi-
nesses. The two don't
always match up.
The unemployment
rates rose in 29 states in
October from the previ-
ous month, the Labor
Department said Friday.
Thirteen states saw their
jobless rates drop.
The national unem-
ployment rate jumped to
10.2 percent in October,
the highest in 26 years,
from 9.8 percent in Sep-
tember.
Michigan still had the
nation's highest unem-
ployment rate in Octo-
ber: 15.1 percent. It was
followed by Nevada at 13
percent, Rhode Island at
12.9 percent, California
at 12.5 percent and South
Carolina's 12.1 percent.
California, Florida, Del-
aware and Washington,
D.C., posted their highest
unemployment rates on
records dating to 1976.
Still, Michigan's job-
less rate fell from 15.3 in
September, as the state
gained 38,600 jobs, most-
ly in professional and
business services sector.
That category includes
temporary workers.
Other states with heavy
auto manufacturing
activity also saw jumps
in the professional and
business category. They
included Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee.
Sophia Koropeckyj,
managing director at
Moody's Economy.com,
said the gains could
reflect greater use of temp
workers by auto makers.
The government's Cash
for Clunkers auto rebate
program led to big sales
gains in August, forcing
auto makers to increase
production to replace
inventories.
But sales dropped after
the clunkers program
ended. And demand
for new cars is likely to
remain weak, Koropeckyj
said.
"We won't necessarily
see a sustained increase"
in auto employment, she
added.
Survey suggests Midwest
economy is improving
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) �
Business appears to be
slowly improving in rural
areas of 11 Midwest and
Plains states, including
Montana, but the econo-
my there remains weak,
according to a new survey
of bankers.
"The decline in farm
income related to pull-
backs in agricultural com-
modities from last year
continues to weigh on the
rural,agriculturallydepen-
dent economy," Creigh-
ton University economist
Ernie Goss said.
The Rural Mainstreet
survey's overall econom-
ic index rose to 38.4 this
month from 37.5 in Octo-
ber and 36.5 in September,
but it remained in negative
territory below 50.
The index runs 0 to 100.
Organizers say a score
below 50 suggests the
economy will contract
in the next few months;
above 50 indicates the
economy will expand.
But the overall Novem-
ber index is well above
the record low of 16.9 set
in February.
The survey covers Col-
orado, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Minnesota, Mis-
souri, Montana, Nebras-
ka, North Dakota, South
Dakota and Wyoming.
The bankers surveyed
said on average they
expect crop income to be
roughly flat this year while
livestockincomewilldown
about 5 percent. If those
figures hold up, that would
be better than the income
predictions the U.S.
Department of Agriculture
has made, said Goss, who
developed the index in
2005 with Bill McQuillan,
CEO of City National Bank
in Greeley, Neb.
On the Web
Creighton Univer-
sity economic surveys:
www2.creighton.edu/
business/economicout-
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