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ThinkstockThe Conference Board has released its Consumer Confidence Index for January. The good news for the economy is that it is far better than the horrific durable goods report from the Commerce...
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ThinkstockTuesday’s top economic report was the durable goods report for December, and unfortunately it is a very ugly number. The headline durable goods report from the Commerce Department was...
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with its take on weekly jobless claims, and the numbers are still coming in at levels conducive to better jobs figures than what was reported for December. It is...
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The Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover report for November showed that job openings in America had reached 4 million, nearly a six-year high.
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The so-called Philly Fed index is out, showing an improvement for January and above expectations. The index has now been positive for eight consecutive months.
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department has two key readings out this Thursday — the Consumer Price Index and Weekly Jobless Claims. Headline inflation, the CPI, is mostly in-line with...
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ThinkstockWholesale inflation was on the rise in December. The Labor Department released its Producer Price Index (PPI), showing a rise of 0.4% from the prior month and a rise of 1.2% from December...
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Wikimedia Commons/creative commonsIf you have been tracking credit ratings of states and nations since before the recession, something today almost seems impossible to imagine. California’s credit...
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The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has released its small business optimism index for the month of December. The report is pessimistic regarding the small business economy.
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department’s report on the Employment Situation for December is turning out to be a disaster, and the unemployment rate itself seems more than confusing....
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This week marks a very important week for the jobs picture in America due to unemployment and nonfarm payrolls coming out on Friday. Now we have the Labor Department’s last real number before that...
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ThinkstockThere has been talk in Europe that Mario Draghi might have make more noise about vigilant policy to prevent weakness from arising, but very few in the investor community were expecting much...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve is out with its minutes from the December FOMC meeting. We generally warn readers that minutes are often the third look at a Fed meeting, but this pertains to the FOMC...
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A recent BNY Mellon report shows that the funded status of U.S.-based corporate pensions rose to 95.2% in December. The report shows that pension plans, endowments and foundations have all won from...
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The ADP Payrolls report is not always an exact indication of the Labor Situation report on payrolls from the U.S. Labor Department each month, but investors, traders and speculators do generally use...
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