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courtesy of McDonald'sSome people have objected to the fact that McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) will keep many of its locations open for Christmas. Apparently, this breaks with a tradition of giving...
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ThinkstockThe governors of the Federal Reserve may believe that a 6.5% national unemployment level is within sight as the current national level has dropped below 8%. But the situation in some states...
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courtesy Chesapeake Energy Corp.The country’s second largest natural gas producer, Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) today announced that it has offered a voluntary separation program to...
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ThinkstockLast month, the unemployment rate in the United States fell to 7.7% of the labor force. The last time unemployment was this low was four years ago this month. An estimated 134.74 million...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. There was a big drop of 27,000 claims, down to 343,000. Bloomberg had a consensus estimate of...
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ThinkstockBen Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee have decided to keep rates the same. That should have been expected by everyone. What was going to be different here about this FOMC...
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Guillaume Paumier / Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-3.0Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was the No. 1 company on the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the 50 Best Places to Work for 2013. This is...
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ThinkstockThe Conference Board has just released its Employment Trends Index, which showed that the November data edged lower. With the report coming after Friday’s key unemployment rate and...
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ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the payroll-to-population (P2P) employment rate fell from...
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ThinkstockFiguring out what today’s data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) really means probably will have to wait until next month. November nonfarm payrolls showed an increase of 146,000...
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courtesy of Monster.comEmployment services company Monster Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: MWW) released its data on jobs, and it was better than many other reports on U.S. employment. According to its...
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ThinkstockMany experts say that small businesses create most of the new jobs in America. But entrepreneurs struggled over the course of the recession as banks withdrew lending to these companies,...
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ThinkstockEven though today’s report on new claims for unemployment benefits showed that fewer new claims were made last week, Gallup’s unadjusted unemployment rate for November rose to 7.8% from...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. There was a big drop of 25,000 claims, down to 370,000. Bloomberg had a consensus estimate of...
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Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) may be announcing a restructuring effort today, but the move may not seem too extreme compared to past restructurings. What feels different here is that the bank is pointing...
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