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As it reaches its 10-year birthday this week, the bull market may not be over. As a matter of fact, 2019 could be a strong year.
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It turns out that the jobs market can keep improving. In the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey indicated that the number of job openings reached a new record high in December.
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The jobs market continues to be strong. Government shutdown or not, this looked like a big report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for January's employment situation.
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The economic reports for January have so far been a bit puzzling. While the readings have indicated slower growth, things were complicated by the long partial government shutdown.
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The December jobs report was almost entirely positive. But one group has not done nearly as well. Black unemployment was almost 70% above the national average.
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The new U.S. Bureau of Labor report of monthly net job additions and unemployment showed the economy added more than 310,000 jobs, the eighth best month in the decade since the Great Recession.
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There is some great news in the U.S. Department of Labor's December jobs report, but it also comes with a catch.
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The ADP National Employment Report showed that its sampling pool of companies added a sharp 271,000 private sector jobs during the month of December.
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Announced job cuts for 2018 reached their highest level since 2015 and the second-highest total since 2011. Announced hiring plans were lower year over year.
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In the days after the payroll and unemployment report each month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
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It has not been too unusual to see many of the economic numbers showing some signs of slower growth in recent weeks. The same is now true of the U.S. Department of Labor's monthly Employment...
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ADP reported that private sector payrolls increased by less than expected in November from the prior month.
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The U.S. Department of Labor released its reading on weekly jobless claims, which rose by 3,000 to 224,000. The prior week’s reading was revised up 5,000 to 221,000.
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The so-called JOLTS report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that hires and separations were both little changed in September, but the number of job openings fell.
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Friday’s unemployment and payrolls report from the U.S. Department of Labor was strong, perhaps strong enough that it still offers plenty of cover for Jerome Powell and his fellow Fed-heads to...
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