AP Survey: Economy To Pick Up But Still Vulnerable

By Paul Wiseman & Derek Kravitz

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy will grow faster in 2012 - if it isn't knocked off track by upheavals in Europe, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists.

Unemployment will barely fall from the current 8.6 percent rate, though, by the time President Barack Obama runs for re-election in November, the economists say.