the number of bad banks continues to grow..as more borrowers fall behind on paying their loans. how the fdic is preparing for the possibility of more failures. plus.as the healthcare debate wages on.costs continue to grow. look forward to another year of double digit increases. what s behind the higher costs and how companies are responding. and.seven billion dollars and counting.the movie industry on it s way towards record numbers this year..will a trio of new releases from horror to hippies help? we ll find out on this edition of first business. slow grind hi year continues to continue for u.s. stocks will command a head of the last two trading sessions in the month of august if all this can hold onto positive gains it will be to the second pass in a row and that we are working and fighting the last six months of higher and stock prices. effects of the month of august the dow is up about 4% of m clearly investors continued to be confident about the stock market in the econ
is the stock rally running out of room? or is this sell-off in the past week a pause that will re-fresh buyers? after a three percent drop in a week, what the talk of the trading floor is? plus, the biggest bank bust of the year. colonial bank is the largest bank to collapse this year.as the pace of closings is picking up.and putting pressure on small businesses. and.why the recession has both consumers and retailers already thinking about the holidays.a look at what some retailers are doing now to help edge out the holiday competition later.it s all ahead on this edition of first business. join the dog days of the best in the month of all this coming off the worst day of the market since july and july was one heck of a good month. we have lots of miles ahead of was for the week ahead housing that is gonna be front and center housing starts on tuesday as well as existing home sales this out until friday but certainly housing is definitely going to weigh especially on marke