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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department has two key readings out this Thursday — the Consumer Price Index and Weekly Jobless Claims. Headline inflation, the CPI, is mostly in-line with...
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ThinkstockWholesale inflation was on the rise in December. The Labor Department released its Producer Price Index (PPI), showing a rise of 0.4% from the prior month and a rise of 1.2% from December...
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ThinkstockLast Friday’s bomb of a report from the U.S. Labor Department has not exactly gone away. This took up perhaps more than it should have of weekend conversation time. In fact, the...
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Friday's Employment Situation report from the U.S. Labor Department may have just made investing in bonds safe again. It seems that if interest rates rise, that rise will be very gradual.
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department’s report on the Employment Situation for December is turning out to be a disaster, and the unemployment rate itself seems more than confusing....
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This week marks a very important week for the jobs picture in America due to unemployment and nonfarm payrolls coming out on Friday. Now we have the Labor Department’s last real number before that...
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The ADP Payrolls report is not always an exact indication of the Labor Situation report on payrolls from the U.S. Labor Department each month, but investors, traders and speculators do generally use...
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ThinkstockIn much of late-2013, investors wanted to see economic reports which showed small growth which was too small to keep the Fed from lifting its quantitative easing measures. Then the markets...
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Last week, after years of partisan fighting, Congress approved a two-year budget deal. Not included in the measure were any plans to extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC)...
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ThinkstockThe idea behind saving Detroit is that, if most of its debt and pension obligations are wiped out in bankruptcy court, the city can operate mostly unencumbered with what have been huge,...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve is due to start its two-day FOMC meeting to determine whether to taper its bond buying activities under its quantitative easing measure. If the Labor Department’s...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims, and the report showed a serious surge in new jobless claims. It also reverses a series of...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department is out with what appears to be a stellar unemployment report for November. The good news is that the payrolls were not too far above whisper numbers after a strong...
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ThinkstockMore strong news is out on the jobs front. The U.S. Labor Department reported that weekly jobless claims fell to 298,000 in the latest week. Dow Jones was calling for about 320,000, and...
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ThinkstockWe warned earlier this week that the Friday unemployment report may trash the stock market if it comes out too strong. If ADP is a prediction tool, then that is looking to be more likely...
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