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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has released its unemployment and payrolls reading for the month of May. The data looks mixed on the surface. The bad news is that the...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims report, the last real employment data ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls report. The...
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ThinkstockThe news for this coming Friday’s unemployment and non-farm payrolls report is now expected to be a bit muted. ADP released its monthly jobs projection for the month of May, and the...
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ThinkstockThe Labor Department’s Employment Situation report is due out this Friday. The investing community will get to find out whether they should have sold in May and gone away. This will be...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsWeekly jobless claims data have been released by the U.S. Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics and may offer at least some support for a very weak equity...
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ThinkstockThe US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today released its data on state and regional unemployment for April. Compared with March data, unemployment rates fell in 40 states and the District...
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ThinkstockLast Friday’s unemployment report managed to come in much better than anticipated. Some even may have questioned whether the computers at the Labor Department were making proper...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is out with the April Employment Situation Report, and it is a report that the market will view positively. Some are going to question the...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department is out with its latest weekly jobless claims report, which is also the last report ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls report. Claims...
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ThinkstockWe already warned ahead of the number that the first-quarter gross domestic product would come in well under estimates. Now we have a setup for a weaker-than-expected April payrolls and...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Employment Cost Index in the first quarter of 2013 is looking very tame, and the so-called wage inflation is running very low. The Labor Department showed that the first-quarter...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. Thursday’s reading amounted to a good change from the prior week, as the weekly claims fell...
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ThinkstockThe recession is not over in several states where unemployment remained well above 9% in March. Against a national rate of 7.6%, these states are locked at levels that still erode state tax...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims report. After last week’s surprise drop of a whopping 42,000 before revisions, the jobless claims...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has provided retail inflation data via the March Consumer Price Index (CPI). CPI came in at -0.2% on the headline report, with only a gain of 0.1% on the core...
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