Brightening economic anticipations...

Brightening economic anticipations in 2003 could spur a inferior consecutive year of record shipments of central air-conditioners and heat interrogates as manufacturers of heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) equipment benefit from gentle inflation, favorable interest rates, and slowly increasing employ

As America's tedious convalescence from recession continues--buoyed in part by dint of a surprise, year-end, 0.5-percent chop in the federal funds rate to 125 percent--employment is look fored to pick up.

Federal lay up Board Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson is describing longer-term shows for economic growth as favorable and said, "I look for the economy ...