Gary Siegel

The European Central Bank announced its Governing Council held interest rates at its latest monetary policy meeting Thursday.

The Federal Open Market Committee will raise interest rates in the last half of next year, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President and CEO Dennis Lockhart said Wednesday.

About 4,894,100 online job postings appeared on leading Internet job boards in March, a decrease of 292,100 from February, the Conference Board reported Wednesday.

New orders for manufactured goods surged 1.6% in February, after dropping 1.0% in January, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

New York City business activity grew at a slower pace in March, as the current business conditions index dropped to 52.0 from 57.0 in February, the Institute for Supply Management-New York's Report on Business index, released Wednesday, indicated.

Private sector employment increased by 191,000 jobs from February to March, according to the March ADP National Employment Report.

Texas service sector activity improved in March, according to business executives responding to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey, as the revenue index surged to 16.5 from 9.8.

The overall economy grew for the fifty-eighth straight time, while the manufacturing sector expanded for the tenth consecutive month, the Institute for Supply Management reported Monday.

Construction spending rose 0.1% in February, the Commerce Department said, 8.7% above the February 2013 level.

The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $25 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.

Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, "increased for the eleventh month in a row in March," according to the monthly business activity survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, released Monday.

The Federal Reserve's "extraordinary commitment" to help the U.S. recover from the Great Recession will be needed "for some time to come," Fed Chair Janet Yellen reiterated Monday.

The Chicago Purchasing Managers' Business Barometer dropped to 55.9 in March from 59.8 in February, the National Association of Purchasing Management-Chicago said Monday.

The seasonally adjusted Milwaukee Report on Business rose to 56.0 in March from 48.6 in February, the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee reported Monday.

The Midwest Economy Index fell to negative 0.03 in February from positive 0.32 in January, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reported Monday.

The University of Michigan's final March consumer sentiment index reading was 80.0, compared to the preliminary March 79.9, and the final February 81.6, according to market sources.

Personal income rose 0.3% in February following an unrevised 0.3% increase in January, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

Manufacturing activity in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's region "increased, and producers' expectations were mostly stable at solid levels," according to the bank's monthly manufacturing survey, released Thursday.

Pending home sales dropped 0.8% to an index reading of 93.9 in February, after a revised 0.2% slip to 94.7 in January, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of Realtors.

Initial jobless claims fell 10,000 to 311,000 in the week ended March 22, the Labor Department said Thursday.