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ThinkstockThe Philadelphia Federal Reserve, or the Philly Fed, is out with its monthly report on business for the month of April. As the Business Outlook Survey is a somewhat live reading, we pay...
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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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Jon OggThe Federal Reserve release its Beige Book on Wednesday, and it seems as though Ben Bernanke and Fed presidents are trying to hint more and more that the end of the Fed’s bond buying and...
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ThinkstockA speech from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis president James Bullard is giving some support for bonds, and it may offer some continued support for equities, as both stocks and bonds are...
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ThinkstockWeekly jobless claims from the Labor Department had shown three consecutive increases, but that is now being undone. The weekly claims fell by a sharp 42,000, from 388,000 down to 346,000...
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Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThis will sound highly counterintuitive, but the extremely weak payrolls report from the Labor Department may in fact be good news for those who have wanted an...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Employment Situation from the Labor Department is looking as though it will be less and less bullish for the markets on Friday. We will get to the predictions...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its final report ahead of Friday’s key Employment Situation report. Weekly jobless claims rose handily and well above expectations. Last week’s...
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ThinkstockWe already saw a less robust outlook from TrimTabs showing that estimated job growth for March was 156,000. That was up from its 100,000 job growth February estimate, but the report shows...
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ThinkstockEach and every month the markets get to digest new unemployment and payrolls data. While the U.S. Labor Department’s formal report called the Employment Situation is out at 8:30 a.m. each...
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ThinkstockThis Friday we will get to see the Labor Department’s employment situation report. If one number can influence the markets in a major way, the payrolls data would be considered one of the...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsStocks are fighting to get into positive territory on Thursday, ahead of a long three-day weekend in celebration of Easter. We have two key reports that investors are...
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ThinkstockPresident Francois Hollande is having a rough time of living up to his labor promises if you read into the unemployment rate in France. The jobless rate rose for what is now going on to be...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its latest read on weekly jobless claims. This likely was not fully available to the Federal Reserve for its announcement...
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Jon OggA fresh report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute is signaling that most Americans are going to be retiring with nowhere close to having enough assets and savings for retirement. The...
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