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ThinkstockThe Labor Department’s Employment Situation report is due out this Friday. The investing community will get to find out whether they should have sold in May and gone away. This will be...
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courtesy of ZyngaThe Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) workforce reduction, which hit about a fifth of its staff yesterday, could grow considerably if the company’s hopeful forecast of its future turns out...
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courtesy of ZyngaShares of Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) were halted for five minutes this afternoon as the company announced a layoff of about 520 employees that it said would be completed by August....
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ThinkstockAlmost all the analysis of the unemployment situation in the euro area focused on the record jobless rate of 12.2%. Nothing was said about the 87.8% employment rate. The very large portion...
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ThinkstockWe have now seen the report on personal income and spending for the month of April, and frankly both look a bit soft and may have a slight impact on some of the second-quarter gross...
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Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsFrom time to time, one polling company or another asks Americans whether they believe the Great Recession has ended. A substantial portion of them say no, and that...
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ThinkstockMen are not the primary bread winners in more and more homes. The effects on them may be devastating emotionally, but the recession turned a centuries-old trend against them. New Pew...
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ThinkstockThe job market always has been broken in two by employment experts. One segment is the employment among firms with 100 positions or less. The other is at bigger companies, which range, for...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsWeekly jobless claims data have been released by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics and may offer at least some support for a very weak equity...
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ThinkstockNetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) is reporting its fourth-quarter corporate earnings and it is throwing in a larger share buyback plan and is initiating a dividend payment to support the news. The...
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ThinkstockThe message you need to send to Washington D.C. is that consumer spending is outshining the ill effects of the sequestration cuts. A new report from the National Association for Business...
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ThinkstockThe number of Americans receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) more-than doubled over the past two decades, from 5.2 million to 11.7 million by the end of 2011. The number of...
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ThinkstockThe US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released its data on state and regional unemployment for April. Compared with March data, unemployment rates fell in 40 states and the District...
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ThinkstockOn Monday, LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) revised the user agreement for its online professional network to exclude certain businesses and at least one profession. The company said that it has...
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ThinkstockThe brutal drive toward operating efficiency that many large companies adopted during the recession continues, despite what most economists call a recovery. Cost cuts are not any more...
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