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The economy is slowly but surely getting better. That's the good news. The bad news is that the market has already figured that out.

The Fed is weighing how to push more money into the economy, and, given the central bank's record, that's bad news for the dollar. Gold, anyone?

The economy is heading nowhere fast. That's the bad news. But the good news is that it still seems like consumers may have actually learned a lesson or two about reckless fiscal behavior.

The bad news is: Things in the Gulf of Mexico could get a whole lot worse.

Over the weekend, Spain bailed out a small savings bank. The IMF says Spain is doing OK, but still needs to make big reforms.

Meanwhile, the head of the European Commission told Germany its proposals for solving the crisis are naive. So far, the U.S. has been mostly unscathed by the crisis in Europe, but there are places where we're feeling it.

Alisa Roth reports.

Home price gains of the past few months flattened out in October, according to a closely watched market report issued Tuesday.

The auto industry has been battered by a never-ending storm of bad news for more than a year, but the last few weeks have been a happy change.

Employers cut more jobs from their payrolls in September, as the long-battered U.S. labor market took an unexpected turn for the worse, according to a government report Friday.

While some sectors of the economy are improving, the labor market is still hurting. Commentator Robert Reich says that bad news for a real recovery.

Here's another good reason to pay attention to mail from your credit card company: You could soon receive a notice that the interest rate on your credit card is going up.

That's the bad news. The good news? Well, there isn't much, but how about this: You may actually have time to figure out what to do about it.