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ThinkstockUnemployment in Spain has been above 24% for several months, and there is nothing about the nation’s economy that will reverse that. The central government has complained that austerity...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is out with the April Employment Situation Report, and it is a report that the market will view positively. Some are going to question the...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is out with its latest weekly jobless claims report, which is also the last report ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls report. Claims...
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courtesy of Ford Motor CompanySales of the Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) F-150 flagship pickup have surged so strongly that the U.S. car company will add workers to build more of them. Analysts have noted...
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ThinkstockAlcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) remains pressured to build up its earnings in a very difficult environment. Now the company has announced that it will “review 460,000 metric tons of smelting...
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ThinkstockWe already warned ahead of the number that the first-quarter gross domestic product would come in well under estimates. Now we have a setup for a weaker-than-expected April payrolls and...
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The economy is still tough and jobs are not yet plentiful. That is likely one part of why the rise of the dollar store theme is now becoming a secular trend rather than a cyclical trend. Dollar...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Employment Cost Index in the first quarter of 2013 is looking very tame, and the so-called wage inflation is running very low. The Labor Department showed that the first-quarter...
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ThinkstockUnemployment in the euro area grew again in March, supporting the obvious conclusion that a lack of stimulus, terribly high unemployment and the crippling of the financial and industrial...
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ThinkstockIf European Union finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have turned away from austerity as a means to help the region’s economy, the action has not affected Greece,...
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ThinkstockElectronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA), which recently dumped its chief executive officer, has decided to cut a large number of workers as well. EA has been unable to make the transition from a...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. Thursday’s reading amounted to a good change from the prior week, as the weekly claims fell...
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ThinkstockThe recession is not over in several states where unemployment remained well above 9% in March. Against a national rate of 7.6%, these states are locked at levels that still erode state tax...
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ThinkstockThe Philadelphia Federal Reserve, or the Philly Fed, is out with its monthly report on business for the month of April. As the Business Outlook Survey is a somewhat live reading, we pay...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims report. After last week’s surprise drop of a whopping 42,000 before revisions, the jobless claims...
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