Passenger traffic at Tampa International Airport declined 4.9 percent in July to 751,586 departing passengers, the lowest monthly percentage drop in a year, airport officials reported. The airport generally gets the same number of arriving as departing passengers, so about 1.5 million passengers used the airport last month. ...more

August 19, 2009

It was an awful December for carmakers, but the fortunes were most terrible for Chrysler LLC, which said Monday that sales plunged 53 percent. ...more

January 6, 2009

Home sales prices across the country declined at record rates in September, when compared with the year-ago period. The Tampa Bay area was no exception. ...more

November 26, 2008

The misery worsened on Wall Street Tuesday, with stocks piling on losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the Dow Jones industrials to more than 875 points amid escalating worries about credit markets and the financial sector. ...more

October 7, 2008

The Tampa area ranked second among 38 large U.S. markets in percentage of jobs lost for the year ending in June, a study by the Department of Labor says. ...more

July 31, 2008

The Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice market recorded the fourth highest percentage drop in total employment nationwide for the past year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics released this week. ...more

July 10, 2008

I only wish I were experiencing a similar percentage drop in wages-revenue as compared to the losses the county and our government is experiencing. Perhaps my losses are attributed to the decline in construction as well as the real estate market or is it the expensive fuel and rising grocery bill? I may also be over taxed with the real estate since you are hard pressed to sell it even at appraised value. Real estate used to be an asset, now it is a trap. Whatever the driving force is behind the ailing economy, the government has not even come close to feeling the crunch that the small business owners and labor force are enduring. I wonder what the future holds and what the economic gurus will label this economic era. ...more

June 9, 2008

Wall Street plunged Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrials down 370 points after investors saw an unexpected contraction in the service sector as evidence the economy is sinking into recession. It was the Dow's biggest percentage drop in almost a year. ...more

February 6, 2008