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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has issued its weekly jobless claims, and we saw another drop in claims. Unfortunately, that decline was only by 2,000, down to 312,000. The prior week was also...
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ThinkstockFueled by the shale oil boom, almost everyone in North Dakota has a job. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in state during May was 2.6%. Several other...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of Labor is out with its weekly jobless claims report from last week, showing a positive trend. Jobless claims fell to 312,000 in the past week. Bloomberg was calling...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve and Janet Yellen have released their rate and monetary policy for the June 18 FOMC announcement. While inflation was seen ticking up in the CPI report this week, the...
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with yet another weekly jobless claims report. Claims rose by 4,000 to 317,000 in the past week. Dow Jones was calling for 310,000, and Bloomberg was calling for...
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ThinkstockTuesday’s economic readings are not exactly market moving numbers because they both cover April data. This was the wholesale trade data and the Labor Department’s JOLTS report. Still,...
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ThinkstockThe Conference Board has released its Employment Trends Index (ETI) for the month of May, and it confirms what TrimTabs and the Labor Department showed for May last week. That is strength...
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ThinkstockGraduate from college with a major in business or computer science and the odds are strong there will be a job waiting. Graduate with a degree in fine arts or graphic design and begin a...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department issued its Employment Situation Report for the month of May on Friday morning. Frankly, it is making the ADP report look a bit silly. Still,...
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The U.S. Labor Department has released its final set of data prior to Friday’s key unemployment rate and payrolls figures. Unfortunately, it is a bit weak. Weekly jobless claims rose by 8,000 in...
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ThinkstockThe ISM Non-Manufacturing Index rose to 56.3 in May from 55.2 in April. The gain might not look like that much, but investors and economic watchers need to consider that this was actually...
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ThinkstockEvery month traders await the new payrolls and unemployment report from the U.S. Labor Department. This is generally the most widely anticipated number of all economic reports. So,...
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ThinkstockADP’s report on private sector payroll growth in May may have just dashed some of the expectations for Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls report. ADP reported that private sector...
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ThinkstockWhile unemployment remains more than 20% in some of America’s metro areas where the recession still lingers, cities within states that never were damaged deeply by the recession continue...
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ThinkstockA Census Bureau report released Thursday puts more precise numbers than ever before on the e-retail revolution. According to the Bureau’s newly published “County Business Patterns:...
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