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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with another weekly jobless claims reading. Weekly claims rose by 24,000 to 329,000 in the past week, and the prior week’s reading...
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ThinkstockAttribute it to the benefits of shale. North Dakota, much of which sits atop of the Bakken Formation, one of the largest natural gas formations in the world, has a nationwide low...
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The U.S. Labor Department has released its tally on weekly jobless claims, and the figure rose by 2,000 to 304,000. The prior week’s reading was revised higher to 302,000 from 300,000. Dow Jones...
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ThinkstockThe Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the month of March did not follow the exact same gains as last week’s Producer Price Index. That generally takes two months or even more before producers...
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ThinkstockIf the Federal Reserve ever wanted to see some inflation — as they keep claiming (careful what you wish for) — the Labor Department just gave a first piece of candy to a child. The...
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ThinkstockThe Labor Department showed that weekly claims were down by a whopping 32,000 to 300,000 in the week ending April 5. Bloomberg had the estimate at 318,000, and the report was even better...
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ThinkstockMore good news is out on employment. The Conference Board Employment Trends Index (ETI) rose in March. Monday’s report seems to somewhat shadow the gains seen in Friday’s unemployment...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has issued its key unemployment and payrolls data for the month of March. With stocks at an all-time high, the trader and market participation...
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TrimTabs Investment Research indicates that the U.S. economy added between 195,000 and 225,000 jobs in the month of March. TrimTabs often has been conservative in its payrolls expectations.
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ThinkstockADP private sector payrolls data was one of the key metrics we were looking for ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls reports. It is a large gain, but perhaps not quite as...
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ThinkstockThis Friday will bring the highly anticipated Employment Situation report from the U.S. Department of Labor. Investors get many previews of what the unemployment and payrolls reports look...
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ThinkstockAs the United States recovers jobs lost during the recession, young Americans are still experiencing a much longer decline in their employment prospects. Between 2000 and 2012, job...
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ThinkstockUnemployment in the United States dropped to 6.7% in February, well below the 10% level it reached at the worst of the Great Recession. While the figure is not as low as economist would...
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ThinkstockThe government calls them “people who are employed part time for economic reasons.” In other words, these people want full-time jobs, but cannot get them. More than seven million...
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squirrel83, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its data on unemployment by city for January. In general, the news was very good. Jobless rates were lower in 367 of the...
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