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Jon OggDeutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) initiated coverage today on the U.S Life Insurance industry. While they do have some Buy recommendations in the current report. their bias is decidedly bearish....
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ThinkstockThe Conference Board has released two more bits of data which may seem confusing compared to last week’s employment report from the Labor Department. The U.S. added only 155,000 payrolls...
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ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the Payroll to Population (P2P) employment rate rose from...
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ThinkstockThe Labor Department is out with its first weekly jobless claims report in 2013, and this is the last look from the government data ahead of Friday’s key unemployment report. With...
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ThinkstockThe Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims, and the good news is that we saw another drop. The bad news is that this time of year is often considered a wash because there...
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ThinkstockThe economic reports keep coming out regardless of the holidays and the Mayan prophecy. Thursday’s reports show a higher tally in weekly jobless claims and a higher reading on gross...
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ThinkstockThe main objective of the Federal Reserve is to conduct the nation’s monetary policy by influencing money and credit in the economy in pursuit of full employment and stable prices. Full...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. There was a big drop of 27,000 claims, down to 343,000. Bloomberg had a consensus estimate of...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. There was a big drop of 25,000 claims, down to 370,000. Bloomberg had a consensus estimate of...
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The U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims. This should be the last report that we would expect any real impact from Hurricane Sandy, as things are getting back to normal. The...
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ThinkstockThe Labor Department released its weekly jobless claims a day earlier than normal due to the Thanksgiving holiday being on Thursday. Last week was a very large surprise gain, but it...
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ThinkstockThursday brought a lot of economic reports for the markets to absorb. The Labor Department reported its October inflation report via the Consumer Price Index, and it also released a major...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has reported its change in weekly jobless claims. Last week was of course skewed by Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast, and now that we have seen an unemployment...
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thinkstockAfter a highly controversial drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8% from 8.1% in September, we now have the October unemployment rate announcement from the Labor Department. The official...
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ThinkstockWe have two more key economic and labor reports ahead of Friday’s key payrolls and unemployment report. The third-quarter preliminary nonfarm productivity and unit labor costs have been...
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