NEW YORK (AP) -- The economic sentiment is "exceedingly glum" all around the world as the public mood has worsened since 2008, with the global economic crisis "widely eroding" support for capitalism.

LONDON (Reuters) - British businesses turned more pessimistic in January, extending a run of falling corporate confidence to five months, but there were some more hopeful views about trading prospects ...

It's nearly Christmas and executives are predicting a lump of coal for 2009. Two separate surveys show gloom extending well into the new year and perhaps beyond. One survey shows that 81 percent of ...

Technology buyers are more pessimistic about a recovery in information technology spending following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a Merrill Lynch survey of 50 U.S. and European chief ...

The smaller BLS survey shows that 265,000 jobs were lost in February. Investors assessing the dismal labor market might be worried to learn of the even bleaker picture painted Friday by the Labor ...

Consumers in the state's metropolitan areas felt less confident in the first quarter of 2013, according to the latest Siena College Quarterly Consumer Sentiment survey. Confidence about the overall ...

Most Peninsula business executives – unlike those elsewhere in the country – see worse times coming, a local survey shows. According to a quarterly survey by Christopher Newport College’s Bureau of ...

WASHINGTON -- Economists have advice for anyone worried that consumers are too fearful to keep spending: Look at what they're doing, not what they're saying. A survey of consumer confidence shows that ...

The last time this happened, Patrick Jankowski’s world went upside down. This, of course, is the last time the economy went south, in the mid-1980s, when the oil bust crushed the Houston area.

FILE - In this June 18, 2018, file photo, a container ship, right, arrives at a container terminal in Tokyo. The latest surveys of Japanese manufacturers are pointing to a slowdown for the world’s ...