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When the September payrolls reading from the Labor Department was so weak, it was TrimTabs that proved more accurate.
You hear it in the press and on the news almost daily: wages are stagnant and need to go up.
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.
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.
September's Consumer Price Index (CPI) was weak enough that consumers can consider it deflationary.
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...
For the week ending September 26, seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims were up by 10,000 from the prior week to 277,000.
The U.S. economy now has seen about seven straight months in which weekly jobless claims have come in under 300,000.
The U.S. Labor Department announced that weekly jobless claims fell to 264,000 in the last week.
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.
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.
The deflationary trends on imports could remain, even if local U.S. prices stay flat or tick up ever so slightly.
Some investors will wonder if the Labor Day weekend played any role in the drop in weekly jobless claims.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) for the month of July.
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...