Service Sector Performance

Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities.

NEW YORK - Signs of domestic growth are sending stocks higher.

Fed moves closer to new action to help economy WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve, meeting for the last time before an election that hinges on the weak economy, edged closer Tuesday to jumping in to help and suggested it's more worried about prices falling than rising.