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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsStocks are fighting to get into positive territory on Thursday, ahead of a long three-day weekend in celebration of Easter. We have two key reports that investors are...
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thinkstockIt would be the understatement of the year or the decade to simply say that the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas region is making people rich. In fact, it is fairly easy to argue that this is...
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ThinkstockPresident Francois Hollande is having a rough time of living up to his labor promises if you read into the unemployment rate in France. The jobless rate rose for what is now going on to be...
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courtesy of XeroxOne of the largest hurdles to the Xerox Corp. (NYSE: XRX) “recovery” is the extent to which its employees hold the company and its chief executive, Ursula M. Burns, in low...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its latest read on weekly jobless claims. This likely was not fully available to the Federal Reserve for its announcement...
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ThinkstockWhere you work can be an excellent predictor of your health, happiness and stress levels. A recent Gallup poll demonstrates the extent to which workers in different professions tend to have...
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Jon OggA fresh report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute is signaling that most Americans are going to be retiring with nowhere close to having enough assets and savings for retirement. The...
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ThinkstockThe Employee Benefit Research Institute released a study that shows what almost everyone already knows. Americans have too little money to retire, and they know it. The solution is not...
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ThinkstockIf there is an event, there is a cost or an economic impact associated with it. St. Patrick’s Day comes every year on March 17, and 24/7 Wall St. wanted to see what sort of economic...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsTwo bits of data were released from the Labor Department today. Weekly jobless claims is a live reading, and producer prices measuring wholesale inflation is a February...
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ThinkstockThe Business Roundtable (BRT) released its first-quarter CEO Economic Outlook Survey for 2013, showing that average CEO economic expectations for the coming six-month period have improved...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe number of U.S. workers laid off or fired in January fell to a 12-year low of 1.51 million according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor. Coupled...
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ThinkstockThe Conference Board has released its monthly Employment Trends Index for the month of February, and it very much confirms the strength seen in Friday’s nonfarm and private sector...
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ThinkstockAcross the country, millions of people work in the public sector, including teachers, clerks and soldiers. The different levels of government employ 16% of U.S. workers, according to a...
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courtesy of USPSThere are always some interesting factoids in various industries and sectors in each monthly breakdown of the Employment Situation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Friday’s BLS...
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