Another indicator of weakness was a 1percentt fall in consumer prices in Tokyo this year, a record decline.
The jobs report is just one of several recent indicators of continued weakness that underscore how improbable it is that the economic picture will be much better — if it gets better at all — before voters make up their minds next year.
Before the surprise September employment report, the first indicators of serious weakness in the economy had centered on the housing market.
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Home prices rose for the fourth month in a row in May, suggesting the recovery in the housing market continued to gain traction even as other economic indicators showed signs of weakness.
Nor is the rapid growth of relatively poor countries like China and India an indicator of American weakness or the superiority of more interventionist growth models.
His story neatly disproves the theory that stuttering is a liability for leadership, or any sort of an indicator of mental weakness.
"I wouldn't take this as anything close to an indicator of electoral weakness for Sens. Boxer or Feinstein," he said, adding that the findings would be markedly different if voters were asked to select between either official and a GOP competitor. "It's fine to say in a vacuum; it's something else entirely when you put a Republican face on the ballot next to them," he said.
The cable, approved by the American ambassador, John R. Beyrle, assessed the Kremlin rumors not as indicators of Mr. Putin's weakness, but of the limits of his position in a period of falling commodity prices and tightening credit.
