The cost of airline tickets continued to climb in the spring, but airfare at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport remained among the cheapest in the country, according to figures released Monday. Airlines trimmed flights from their schedules during April, May ...

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NEW YORK — AIG said Monday it raised nearly $37 billion from the sale of two foreign insurance units and will use that money to repay a government bailout. The insurance giant closed its previously announced sale of American Life ...

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The Daily Record met with Gov. Martin O'Malley a few days before he will face re-election, pitted against former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. O'Malley discusses his plans for business, transportation and how to bring Maryland out of recession successfully.

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WASHINGTON — The job market and the economy will improve only slightly next year, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists whose outlook for 2011 has dimmed over the past three months. The latest quarterly AP Economy Survey ...

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NEW YORK — Americans’ view of the economy turned grimmer in September amid escalating job worries, falling to the lowest point since February. The downbeat report, released Tuesday, raises more fears about the tenuous U.S. economic recovery. It also further ...

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NEW YORK — Top corporate executives aren’t quite as optimistic about sales growth now as they were in June, suggesting that some are putting plans to hire more workers on hold. Two-thirds of the chief executives that Business Roundtable surveyed ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A nonprofit group in Hagerstown says it’s cutting some of its services to the needy due to declining donations and grants. The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail reported Monday that the REACH caregivers organization is reducing expenditures for this fiscal year ...

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It’s been an on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand kind of week for anyone trying to get a handle on the state of our economic health. It started with word from the Cambridge, Mass.-based National Bureau of Economic Research that the recession — the longest ...

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WASHINGTON — The longest recession the country has endured since World War II ended in June 2009, a group that dates the beginning and end of recessions declared Monday. The National Bureau of Economic Research, a panel of academic economists ...

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WASHINGTON — The economy may have a long way to go, but at least two big threats are fading. Economists are less worried that the U.S. will experience another round of mass layoffs and its first bout of deflation since ...

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