As a new financial week begins, investors are dreading more bad news from Europe and further knocks to the market.

A US report hinted at an improvement in labour market conditions after unemployment benefit claims rose less than expected last week.

Barack Obama’s jobs package could lift US economic growth by one to three percentage points in 2012, add well over one million jobs, say analysts.

Barack Obama is due to unveil a jobs package in a speech to Congress. What might his bold plan to reduce the country’s unemployment rate consist of?

Wall Street braced for losses on Tuesday after world stock markets took a beating over fears that the US economy was heading back into recession.