Budget analysts give boost
The Washington Post Congressional budget analysts gave an important political boost Wednesday to a Senate panel's health-care overhaul, projecting that the $829 billion measure would both dramatically shrink the ranks of the uninsured and keep President Barack Obama's pledge that doing so would not add ``one dime'' to federal budget deficits.
Analysts are raising earnings estimates for companies at the fastest rate since at least 2004 just as stocks post the biggest losses in 16 months on concern that the economy will sink back into a recession.