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ThinkstockThis is going to sound a bit counterintuitive on the surface, but there is some good news in the American jobs market: more Americans are quitting their jobs. The U.S. Labor Department has...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has reported a much larger drop in weekly jobless claims than was expected. The weekly jobless claims fell by 21,000 down to 323,000. Dow...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsLast Friday’s report from the Department of Labor was so strong, with more than 200,000 payrolls created in October, that we figured the report had to be riddled with...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe October Employment Situation Report from the Labor Department is showing that the government shutdown had almost no real impact to the private sector jobs market....
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ThinkstockThis Friday we will get to see the October nonfarm payroll number and unemployment rates from the Labor Department. Unfortunately, the tone is going from bad to worse. Last week a report...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department may be delaying its unemployment report a few days late after the federal government shutdown, but we are still getting to see the weekly...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department may be late this month with the unemployment and nonfarm payrolls report, but the ADP payrolls data is giving a weaker-than-expected look at the jobs market. ADP...
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ThinkstockInflation is just not appearing in the broad economic numbers. A fresh report from the U.S. Department of Labor actually is not that fresh, but it is the most recent report on inflation...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department is back open and is dribbling out its economic reports again. Thursday morning’s report was on weekly jobless claims, and the figure came in as a drop of 12,000...
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Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesMany college courses will try to teach you that it is nearly impossible to beat the market through time because the broad markets are supposed to reflect all...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsYou have been warned not to use or to trust the Labor Department’s Employment Situation report for September. This was supposed to come out on October 4, but the...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe federal government shutdown allowed many government agencies to stop with their normal economics reports, on which the stock market and bond market have come to...
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ThinkstockThe federal government may have been closed, but the Labor Department did manage to get another weekly jobless claims report out. Due to imbalances in California and elsewhere, we are not...
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Jon OggThe stock and bond markets in the United States and internationally had to trade through a very unusual first Friday or the month because there was no Labor Department report on Unemployment...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is, at least as of last look, not expected to release the unemployment situation and the nonfarm payrolls report on Friday due to the...
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