US businesses slash 108,000 jobs in March
New York: US companies slashed 108,000 jobs in March following huge cuts the month before as war in Iraq battered the economy at home. But the overall civilian unemployment rate held steady at 5.8 per cent.
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Global economy hit by negative data, SARS
Singapore: Even as a US advance on Baghdad raised hopes of a quick end to war, faltering growth in the United States and Europe and Asia's deadly virus suggested things could get worse for a fragile world economy.
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