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The Labor Department has released some news that will give the FOMC some additional cover for an excuse to raise interest rates on Wednesday.
More than 1.1 million violent crimes were reported in the United States in 2014, or 366 incidents per 100,000 Americans. Compared with 2013, the U.S. violent crime rate fell by 1%. The 2014 violent...
Now that the economy is at or near the classic definition of full employment, the underlying trends and opportunities in the jobs market need to be considered.
Friday's Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is strong enough to support the pending first Federal Reserve interest rate hike in years.
The U.S. Department of Labor has given what is the last official government report including key jobs data, via weekly jobless claims, ahead of Friday's key unemployment and payrolls report.
A report on Wednesday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed both productivity and unit labor costs were higher in the third quarter.
Something just feels odd about the jobs market these days. The concerns of a serious slowing in new jobs seemed to have abated, but the Consumer Confidence had a serious slowing expected in jobs...
The U.S. Labor Department has turned in yet another stellar weekly jobless claims report.
Is inflation finally here? The answer depends on what you are looking at, and if you can look at the data with rose-colored glasses.
Friday's PPI report from the U.S. Department of Labor showed that wholesale prices for final demand fell in October.
More good news came out of the U.S. Department of Labor in the latest weekly jobless claims report.
Intuit's monthly Small Business Employment and Revenue Indexes show that employment in firms with fewer than 20 employees remained almost unchanged for the third consecutive month.
If the Federal Reserve wants more evidence of inflation to help justify that likely December interest rate hike, the Fed presidents are going to have to look somewhere other than import and export...
So, it turns out that Janet Yellen may have actually tipped her hand about a strong payrolls report after all.
This week's testimony by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen may have caused a stock market sell-off by noting that the conditions seem right for that elusive fed funds interest rate hike in December.