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Massey Energy Company (NYSE: MEE) has been thrashed since its catastrophic mine explosion.  Shares were near a 52-week high when this came about, and things have gone far south from then.  NPR...
Maybe you remember the “Bear Market Financial Terms”… If you are getting as sick of the daily financial news out of Greece and its financial games as we are, here are some new Greek Financial...
The Labor Department has released its figures for unemployment and for non-Farm Payrolls for the month of March.  The official unemployment rate was 9.7% and the change in non-Farm Payrolls was a...
After the surprise drop of 23,000 in ADP estimated payrolls for March, all eyes were on the Labor Department’s weekly jobless claims data.  There was a drop of 6,000 on an adjusted basis to...
The Labor Department has released its Unemployment rate for February.  The official figure kept at 9.7% versus a Dow Jones projection of 9.8%.  The change in non-Farm Payrolls in February was...
The weekly jobless claims from the U.S. Labor Department showed a decline from the week before.  The weekly claims fell by a 29,000 adjusted figure to 469,000 claims after last week’s figure was...
This morning’s weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department are showing a whole new round of concerns that perhaps the recently weak consumer confidence is due to the notion that jobs are not...
The Labor Department has just released its data on weekly jobless claims and there was a drop of 43,000 to 440,000.  Bloomberg consensus estimates from economists was listed as 467,000 jobless...
Many have said that the math from the US Labor Department is fuzzy, and today will only show further conversations of that notion.  Despite the negative recent news in weekly jobless claims, the...
The Labor Department released the weekly jobless claims data this morning, and whatever policies are being presented just are not helping on the hiring and firing front in the nation.  The weekly...
The large multinational companies were supposed to have done their layoffs during the first half of 2009, when the recession was at its worst. Those layoffs should have cut as close to the bone as...
SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) has been a key trading focus of late, mostly with positive metrics.  The company has now posted positive cash flow for the entire year of 2009 and it showed stronger...
The weekly jobless claims are are fresh out from the Labor Department.  All the gains we started to see and the progress made late in 2009 are going the wrong way now.  We show a gain of 36,000 to...
The Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims data.  The figure came in as a gain of 11,000 in the jobless line at 444,000.  We had a consensus expected from Bloomberg as being...
The Great Recession has taken its toll on America.  The New-Normal in U.S. economic data and jobs is starting to look like more like Europe every day, except that none of us get five-weeks off or...