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Strikes by truckers in France threatened to close major highways and may even disrupt inventories of fuel across the European nation. Officials said they would call out the police, if necessary, to...
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The Business Round Table, which is a group of the most powerful CEOs in America, will meet in Chicago this month and try to address what the largest businesses in the US can do to improve the...
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The Labor Department is out with the latest round of bad news on unemployment and the change in non-Farm Payrolls data for September. September’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6%. ...
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The Labor Department is out with its latest weekly jobless claims and we saw a drop at -11,000 to 445,000, although the figures from a week ago were revised slightly higher to 456,000 from 453,000. ...
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The Labor Department’s figures on the latest weekly jobless claims came in with a drop of 16,000 down to 453,000, slightly better than expected but still a no-growth level for jobs. The consensus...
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Democrats in the U.S. Senate were dead wrong to try and punish U.S. companies for shipping jobs overseas. The effort was thwarted by the Republican minority but is not going away in an election...
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The Labor Department is out with its newest figure of weekly jobless claims and the tally fell quite a bit down to 451,000. Bloomberg had the estimate at 470,000. The initial jobless claims from...
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After a long period of unemployment, any upside to the jobs numbers at any point offers a helping hand to the stocks of companies that revolve around the jobs market. That is payroll services,...
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The official unemployment rate for August is out from the Labor Department and the unemployment rate grew 0.1% to 9.6% as expected. The total non-Farm payrolls was -54,000 in August, but the...
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The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, has published its 17th annual survey of CEO compensation, noting, among other things, that CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most...
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The economic data has been atrocious from jobs to housing and now we are getting some earnings warnings as companies are realizing that they cannot stick by the guidance offered in July. Yet the...
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Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 5-8, 2010, with a random sample of 1,013 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the continental U.S., selected using...
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The Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims fell a sharp 31,000 to 473,000 in the last week, something which which may be a relief to many hoping that the trend can reverse. Last week’s...
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Defense contractor Northrop Grumman cut 642 people from its ship building operation yesterday. That follows another 300 cuts from the same operation last month. The reason given was that the Navy has...
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As the global economy recovers and businesses around the world begin to expand their workforces again, labor shortages are bound to become a mounting issue for the developed world – despite current...
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