market strains

Officials complain that investigating abuses in electricity markets strains their resources.

Michael Romano at the Union Square Cafe uses the Italian torta method when the local green market strains its bins come mid-August.

Still, Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, and a number of other Fed officials have remained concerned that financial market strains could put the nation's long expansion at risk if not reversed.

The government said weekly jobless claims fell but were still at a level showing labor market strains a day before the October jobs payroll report, which is likely to underscore the economic challenges before President-elect Barack Obama.

NATIONAL 16-27 New Electricity Market Strains Wires Past Limits Consumers struck by the blackout are learning a difficult truth about the electricity grid: it was an afterthought during the decade-long process of deregulating the power industry.