little hope

The economist widely acknowledged to have predicted the financial crash of 2008 holds little hope that global economic troubles will be fixed anytime soon and warns that without major policy changes things can still get much worse.

Businesses stepped up hiring in December, adding a net total of 103,000 jobs during the month and offering a little hope for a sustained improvement in the U.S. jobs market.

Scores of buildings around Dubai are well past their delivery date, or have yet to be started.

A mixed report on the labor market in August contained enough kernels of hope to send stocks higher on Friday.

Halliburton said Monday its second-quarter profit tumbled 48 percent as sluggish exploration and production activity, particularly in North America, crimped results.

Its earnings beat Wall Street forecasts, though the company offered little hope for an uptick in drilling before year's end.

The Fed’s new snapshot of business activity showed the economic picture darkening in the last two months and revealed little hope for a quick turnaround.