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2009, the year began with the worst recession in decades. Its impact hit businesses large and small

and sent unemployment soaring into the double digits. But then Washington stepped in with a stimulus program and signs of economic recovery emerged. Stocks took off on Wall Street and demand for gold heated up taking its price to new heights.So what can investors expect in the new year? We’ll look ahead in this special program. This is a special edition of Nightly Business Report with Susie Gharib and Tom Hudson. Nightly Business Report is made possible by Exxon Mobile. This program is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you. Thank you.

 

Good evening, everyone and happy New Year. The financial market celebrated the start of 2010 by taking the day off. So tonight, we’ll take stock of where the markets and the economy have gone over the past year and where they may be headed in the coming year. Tom? Susie? We’ve just emerged from one of the worst decades ever for stock holders. A period that’s been called the lost decade. That’s because the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Standards and Poor’s 500 and other market indexes actually lost ground over the past 10 years.

 

Well, behind the stock market’s huge rally last year was the recovery in the US economy. It appears now that the recession that began in late 2007 is over. But as Susan Prate reports, it took months before the recovery took hold. 2009 began with the US economy began teetering불안정하게 움직이다 on the verge of depression. Banks were imploding자체파산, foreclosures압류 mounting and pink slips해고통지서 flying. When Barack Obama was sworn in as president, he said, “The state of our economy calls for action bold and swift and we will act not only to create new jobs, but to lay new foundation for growth.”

 

Part of that new foundation came in February when the new president signed into law, a $757 billion stimulus plan. It promised to create million of jobs and help pull the US out of recession. Help couldn’t come soon enough. In early March, major stock market indexes hit 12 year lows with the Dow sinking 6500.

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