U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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When the September payrolls reading from the Labor Department was so weak, it was TrimTabs that proved more accurate.
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You hear it in the press and on the news almost daily: wages are stagnant and need to go up.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has just released another report on weekly jobless claims. Its advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was less than expected.
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with another solid report on weekly jobless claims. There remains a debate about whether the large growth in payrolls is over.
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September's Consumer Price Index (CPI) was weak enough that consumers can consider it deflationary.
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thinkstock.com Wages for the wealthiest 1% of Americans more than doubled between 1979 and 2011. Wages for the median U.S. worker, by contrast, increased just 6% over that period. The gap between the...
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For the week ending September 26, seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims were up by 10,000 from the prior week to 277,000.
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The U.S. economy now has seen about seven straight months in which weekly jobless claims have come in under 300,000.
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The U.S. Labor Department announced that weekly jobless claims fell to 264,000 in the last week.
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Inflation is what the Federal Reserve wants more of to give it cover for raising interest rates. It turns out that they may have to find something else.
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This report is likely to act as yet one more curve ball for the Federal Reserve in this month's decision on whether to hike the fed funds rate.
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The deflationary trends on imports could remain, even if local U.S. prices stay flat or tick up ever so slightly.
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Some investors will wonder if the Labor Day weekend played any role in the drop in weekly jobless claims.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) for the month of July.
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Thinkstock The nationwide median household income was $55,132 in June, according to Sentier Research. While incomes have risen slowly over the last several years, few families, and even fewer...
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