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The U.S. economy may have turned a corner after the deepest recession in some 70 years, but Federal Reserve policymakers appear to be in no rush to raise interest rates.

Economic growth and job creation remain the government’s top priority, despite a federal deficit that is “too high,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledges the federal budget deficit is too high, but that the priorities now are economic growth and job creation.

China’s manufacturing sector expanded for the eighth straight month in October, pointing to further signs that the recovering economy is on firmer ground, a survey by an industry group said Sunday.

The U.S. economy has been kick-started into growth but stock investors still face an uncertain outlook as Wall Street gears up for comments from the Federal Reserve and a key report on employment next week.

President Barack Obama said on Saturday this week’s positive job and economic growth figures proved that his big spending efforts to stimulate the economy were working.

Medicare has become a scary word to the doctors at the largest private group practice in Kansas City, Mo.