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When Solar Giants Try To Shrink Their Way To Prosperity (FSLR)

Posted: April 17, 2012 at 9:52 am

What happens when you are the de facto king of solar, get an analyst downgrade, have no full-time CEO, announce factory closures, and announce broad layoffs?  It might not be ...
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Cities with Double the National Unemployment Rate

Posted: April 13, 2012 at 6:36 am

When the U.S. labor market is discussed, the national figures naturally take center stage. But the employment picture across the country can be very different -- not just between states, ...
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Jobs Data Goes From Bad To Worse

Posted: April 12, 2012 at 8:41 am

The Labor Department's report on weekly jobless claims may have the caveat that Easter was earlier but it is ugly on the surface.  The weekly jobless claims rose 13,000 to ...
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Why No One Wants to Be a Lumberjack

Posted: April 11, 2012 at 6:40 am

Americans do not want to be news reporters, broadcasters, waitresses, soldiers, dishwashers, dairy farmers or oil rig workers. Most of all , they do not want to be lumberjacks. That ...
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AT&T Union and Sony Layoffs: Worker Haves and Have Nots

Posted: April 9, 2012 at 6:49 am

AT&T (NYSE: T) cannot fire workers it does not want. Sony (NYSE: SNE) easily can fire its unwanted workers. Leverage is at the heart of employee power, now that the recession has ended ...
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Jobs Growth Numbers Well Below Consensus

Posted: April 6, 2012 at 8:39 am

The US economy added only 120,000 jobs in March--a huge disappointment. Most consensus forecasts were for 210,000. There had been a concern that improved hiring over the last five months ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Preview Unemployment & Payrolls Data

Posted: April 5, 2012 at 8:34 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims for the prior week.  Today's report is unlikely to change the unemployment and payrolls projections due tomorrow.  The newest ...
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ISM Shows Services Economy Growing At Slower Pace In March

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 10:13 am

The Institute for Supply Management is out with its latest report on the services economy.  The non-manufacturing data for the month of March 2012 showed that economic activity in the ...
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National Employee Morale Day Hits Yahoo!… Layoffs Confirmed (YHOO)

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 9:37 am

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has confirmed the big secret that most financial and employment readers already knew was coming soon.  The layoffs have been confirmed.  Yahoo! is talking about reshaping ...
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Yet Another Sign Of Jobs Improvement

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 9:07 am

ADP says private firms added 209,000 workers last month. The market was disappointed that the number was not better, but at least job growth is a regular part of the ...
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TrimTabs Previews Jobs Creation

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 7:48 am

TrimTabs Investment Research has released its March employment data showing that the United States added 187,000 jobs in March.  This is above the 172,000 average of each of the prior ...
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An Answer To Main Unemployment Question

Posted: April 4, 2012 at 6:34 am

The reason for high unemployment figures in the US and the chance they will improve have been based on two opposing theories. The first is that jobs were lost because ...
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Yahoo! Layoffs Coming (YHOO, GOOG, MSFT)

Posted: March 30, 2012 at 12:54 pm

A report at The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital blog, cites several sources confirming that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) will begin firing workers next week. The company employs about ...
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Investigation Of Apple Supplier Foxconn Finds Issues At Factories

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 4:37 pm

The Fair Labor Association found problems at three plants run by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) supplier Foxconn. Oddly enough, these come as Apple CEO Tim Cook visits China where the plants are ...
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Jobless Claims Revision Skews Report Ahead of Unemployment

Posted: March 29, 2012 at 8:45 am

The Labor Department's report on weekly jobless claims is out and the report showed a drop of 5,000 to 359,000 for the prior week.  Bloomberg had estimates of 350,000 and ...
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