April 2013 Current Events: Business News. Here are the key events in business and science news for the month of April 2013. *. Economy Stalls as Hiring Slows Down in March (April 5):Only 88,000 jobs are added in March, less than half the amount economists had predicted. The amount is also significantly less than the 268,000 jobs that were added in February. Unemployment decreases from 7.7 percent in February to 7.6 percent in March. However, the decrease comes from more people leaving the labor force, not from new hires.