Enron Shares Plunge On More Bad News Natural gas and electricity concern Enron saw its stock fall to it lowest level since 1994, after news that the company is in talks to use additional lines of credit to help it through recent financial troubles.
Lake Mead, which was created by the building of Hoover Dam, reached it lowest levels ever this spring.
But companies remain deeply worried about spending cuts and the general economic outlook, with business confidence at it lowest since early 2009 when Britain was mired in recession.
In February UNICEF concluded that Britain was the worst place for children in the industrialised world, ranking it lowest on all sorts of measures, including, heartrendingly, whether children felt their peers were "kind and helpful".
In another report, the Labor Department said new claims for unemployment benefits fell as expected last week, with the four-week moving average dropping to it lowest level in more than two and a half years.
"Drug usage is at it lowest level since records began.
