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ThinkstockTuesday’s economic readings are not exactly market moving numbers because they both cover April data. This was the wholesale trade data and the Labor Department’s JOLTS report. Still,...
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department issued its Employment Situation Report for the month of May on Friday morning. Frankly, it is making the ADP report look a bit silly. Still,...
The U.S. Labor Department has released its final set of data prior to Friday’s key unemployment rate and payrolls figures. Unfortunately, it is a bit weak. Weekly jobless claims rose by 8,000 in...
ThinkstockThe percentage of American workers in unions remained effectively unchanged last year. This marks a departure from the nation’s long-term trend. In the past 30 years, union membership...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has some good news, particularly in light of the Commerce Department revising first-quarter GDP to -1.0%. Weekly jobless claims fell by 27,000, down to 300,000, in...
Unemployment remains more than 20% in two of America’s metro areas, and above 15% in a number of others. While the recession may be over throughout most of the United States, it lingers in some...
The most recent weekly jobless claims have been released by the U.S. Labor Department, and they show a big jump in the wrong direction. Jobless claims rose by a sharp 28,000 to 326,000 in the past...
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with yet another weekly jobless claims report, but this one was a much better-than-expected surprise. Weekly claims plummeted by 24,000...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department released its consumer inflation report on Thursday morning. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the key measurement of inflation at the retail level, and it is...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department reading on the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (the JOLTS report) showed that some 4.014 million job openings were available in the United States on the...
While the trend for payrolls and unemployment has been better, the great compression in weekly jobless claims had not been continuing at the same rate as of late. Thursday’s weekly jobless claims...
ThinkstockThe Conference Board Employment Trends Index rose in the month of April, a trend that coincides perfectly with the Labor Department report from last Friday. The so-called ETI rose to 118.0...
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsVarious data was supporting a strong jobs number for this Friday, and the Labor Department confirmed an even stronger jobs number than what TrimTabs and ADP had...
The U.S. Labor Department is out with a very disappointing weekly jobless claims report. Sadly, this is after both ADP and TrimTabs signaled a stronger payrolls base for the key unemployment and...
ThinkstockThis Friday’s unemployment and nonfarm payrolls report has the foundation for another strong jobs number. Two preliminary readings are giving a boost to the hopes here: ADP and TrimTabs....