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The verdict is in. Friday's release from the Department of Labor showed that nonfarm payrolls grew by 113,000. Bloomberg was calling for 181,000 and Dow Jones was calling for 189,000.
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Shares of employment site Monster Worldwide were up big on Thursday, thanks to the announcement of better-than-expected results. That could bode well for results due from LinkedIn after the close.
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ThinkstockThe latest monthly Challenger, Gray and Christmas job cuts survey finds layoffs jumped nearly 50% in January, after hitting a 13-year-low in December. U.S.-based employers announced plans...
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ThinkstockWednesday’s ADP Private Sector Payrolls report showed a gain of 175,000 in January. Dow Jones was calling for 189,000 and Bloomberg was calling for 170,000. While there has to be some...
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January and February have put the stock market in question for 2014. After three series of major economic releases were handily under expectations in the United States, the issues overseas are...
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ThinkstockThe seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the 17-nation eurozone was 12.0% in December, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. The rate has been stable...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department reported a surge in weekly jobless claims during the past week. Bloomberg had been calling for almost no change at 327,000, but the rate rose by 19,000 to 348,000....
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with its take on weekly jobless claims, and the numbers are still coming in at levels conducive to better jobs figures than what was reported for December. It is...
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ThinkstockSpain’s statistics bureau, the INE, reported that unemployment was 26.02% for the fourth quarter of 2013. The figure is a terrible reminder that some nations within the European Union may...
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ThinkstockIf the global economic recovery has left some things behind, the most important is probably job creation. In 2013, 202 million people were unemployed worldwide, up five million from 2012....
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ThinkstockThe vast majority of working Americans spend their time at one job, but that isn’t the case for everyone. In 2012, roughly 5% of the U.S. working population held more than one job at the...
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The Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover report for November showed that job openings in America had reached 4 million, nearly a six-year high.
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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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Courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.; photo by Chris RupertJ. C. Penney Company Inc. (NYSE: JCP) is raising the white flag of surrender on some of its operations. Late on Wednesday came word that the...
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Long-term unemployment has become a deeper and deeper problem in the United States. Just as large a problem, if not larger, is the number of Americans who live with parents who have been unemployed...
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