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Groupon is shedding 1,100 workers, or about 10% of its workforce, though this effort may not accomplish that much in the end.
Seagate Technology has committed to a restructuring plan that includes reducing its total workforce by about 2%.
Twitter, like other new world tech companies, admitted it does not employ enough women and minorities.
Despite a one-month lag, the JOLTS report gives a very clear and concise insider's eye view of the real workings inside the jobs market.
The U.S. Department of Labor said jobless claims came in at 270,000 last week, a little less than the Bloomberg consensus estimate.
Challenger, Gray & Christmas has released its monthly job cuts for July, and it is ugly. The last time more job cuts were announced was back in September 2011.
The United States had more than 5 million job openings on the last business day of May, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Thursday will mark two key events, the first being the U.S. Department of Labor's report for unemployment and new payrolls for the month of June.
ThinkstockWhen you hear that employers cannot find workers, or that job seekers are not happy with the available jobs, some market and economic watchers scratch their heads. Now a new Bureau of Labor...
Coal companies have suffered recently, and they need a means to survive this harsh political climate.
Equity futures are treating the latest unemployment data as "good news is bad news" because it means that Federal Reserve hawks will have a stronger case to raise interest rates sooner than Yellen...
Moody's ungraded four of America's largest banks due to their new aversion to risk. JPMorgan layoffs were more about efficiency than about risk.
The Chicago Federal Reserve recently released a report showing its projections regarding the changing labor force composition and the natural rate of unemployment.
The sinkhole called the U.S. Postal Service lost another $1.3 billion in the first quarter, more evidence that the it needs to begin cutting costs aggressively now.
Usually when people hear the word storm used, it means that catastrophe has struck. That just isn't always the case when it comes to the financial markets.