economic outlook

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress Wednesday that the economic outlook remains "unusually uncertain."

Economics is known as the dismal science, but not every economist is a pessimist.

The long-term economic outlook remains gloomy, but the market should still advance in the coming year. Here are the best directions in which to aim your portfolio.

With unemployment heading toward double digits, budgets so tight they squeak, and the economic outlook about as clear as mud, three words describe hiring managers these days: picky, picky, picky.

Just 54% of employers plan to bring on at least a few new grads this spring, down from 76% two years ago, according to Monster.com's newest entry-level hiring survey, and the competition for management-track jobs is more ferocious than it's been in almost a decade.

Standard & Poor's has downgraded the UK's economic outlook from stable to negative. Could the U.S. be next?

Stephen Beard reports.