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Inflation continued to rise on the wholesale level in November, at least by enough to offer cover for a Federal Reserve rate hike.
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While some inflation has been in seen, it seems like the strong dollar is capping the prices for what Americans are importing from abroad.
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The U.S. Department of Labor's latest employment situation report indicated that the official unemployment rate for November dropped to a post-recovery low.
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Each and every month, the U.S. Department of Labor 's payrolls and unemployment rate report is effectively previewed by ADP's monthly private sector payrolls report.
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Last week’s massive drop in weekly jobless did not seem to repeat itself. That being said, jobless claims remain stubbornly low and signal a continuation of a good employment market. The U.S. Labor...
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What if one of those economic reports of pre-election time periods implied that the bump in inflation seen in recent months was already coming back down?
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While the reported number of the job openings and turnovers do not move the markets, they can confirm trends in the jobs market or they can show anomalies.
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Each month's Labor Department Employment Situation report is given a 48-hour preview by the ADP Employment Report, which offers a directional bias on private sector payrolls.
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The JOLTS report never really moves the stock or bond markets at all. What it does aim to do is to act as a confirmation tool that perhaps the number of job openings is on the decline.
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Various economic releases have pointed out that hiring has become less robust of late. Maybe it is just the election, or maybe it is something worse.
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Well, there is no real data inside of the payrolls and unemployment report for the conspiracy theorists to run wild with as the last serious economic report ahead of the election.
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After having been in the dumps for far too long, we are seeing a long overdue surge in worker productivity. The productivity report was better than economists had predicted.
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According to the Labor Department, the weekly jobless claims were higher than expected in the week ending October 29.
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Friday's Employment Situation report from the U.S. Department of Labor is perhaps one of the most widely followed economic reports of them all. It is also one of the last formal reports that people...
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Every Thursday brings a new report on initial jobless claims from the U.S. Department of Labor. There was a slight dip in the week ending October 22, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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