ACROSS THE BOARD : THE WEEK AHEAD.MONDAY Treasury bill auction. ALSO TUESDAY: Commerce Department reports on international trade for May. Treasury holds bill auction. WEDNESDAY: Commerce Department reports on housing starts for June. Treasury holds note auction. THURSDAY: Labor Department The Department of Labor (DOL) administers federal labor laws for the Executive Branch of the federal government. Its mission is "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working reports weekly jobless claims Initial Jobless Claims is a report issued by the U.S. Department of Labor on a weekly basis. This report tracks how many people have filed for unemployment benefits in the previous week. It is a good gauge of the U.S. job market. . Treasury reports federal budget for June. Freddie Mac Freddie Mac: see Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. reports weekly mortgage rates. Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan Dr. Greenspan is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Greenspan also serves as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed's principal monetary policymaking body. , chairman of the Federal Reserve The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the central banking system of the United States and one of the most important decision-makers in American economic policies. , testifies before House Banking Committee about monetary policy. BIZ BYTES ANOTHER REASON TO COMPLAIN: At the Better Business Bureau in Dallas, you can complain all you want to - but it'll cost you. The agency, which has traditionally had no fees for its service, began this month to charge $9.50 for handling each complaint against a business. The bureau contends the fee is needed to speed up services. In Dallas, a current exception to the fee is when a complaint is filed over the bureau's World Wide Web site. Other BBBs don't plan on adopting the fee structure any time soon. ``I'm not going to charge somebody who's already been scammed for the privilege of telling me about it,'' said John Riggins, president of the nearby Better Business Bureau of Fort Worth. - Associated Press SITE OF THE WEEK TAKE A DIP ONLINE: For U.S. Masters Swimming, a nationwide organization of more than 36,000 swimmers from age 19 to more than 100, the Web is proving to be a useful tool for communication among geographically dispersed groups of swimming enthusiasts. The main U.S. Masters Web site has an average of 1,300 user sessions per day. Visitors can check things like discussion forums, current record times and databases with information about swimming pools around the country. Swimmers can turn to the Web site for everything from shoulder problems to travel questions. Point your toes at www.usms.org. - The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times |
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