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Bernanke Talks Up The Jobs Market

Posted: March 26, 2012 at 8:10 am

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is giving a speech at the National Association for Business Economics Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. titled simply "Recent Developments in the Labor Market."  Mr. ...
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Odds Increasing of Monster Buyout, Maybe (MWW)

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 2:11 pm

Monster Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: MWW) may be "back for sale" in the minds of investors and speculators.  The company is currently under a strategic review to maximize shareholder value, but ...
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Consumers Worried About Economic Recovery Faultering (RATE)

Posted: March 19, 2012 at 10:43 am

Even if the growth is muted and even if employment remains pressured, things have continued to improve in America.  It turns out that not everyone expects the recovery to last.  ...
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Jobless Claims & Producer Prices Meet The Mark

Posted: March 15, 2012 at 8:39 am

The Labor Department's reports on weekly jobless claims and producer prices are out and mostly in-line with expectations. Claims came in with a drop of 14,000 to 351,000 and the prior ...
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Payrolls Data Positive, Overall Net-Neutral Bias on Employment

Posted: March 9, 2012 at 8:34 am

Market participants now have the awaited data from the U.S. Labor Department on February unemployment and payrolls.  The official unemployment rate came in at 8.3%. The target from Bloomberg and ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Tick The Wrong Way

Posted: March 8, 2012 at 8:36 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims and this is effectively the last-look figure before Friday's key unemployment and non-farm payrolls data.  Jobless claims rose by ...
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ADP Signals All’s Well on Jobs

Posted: March 7, 2012 at 8:21 am

ADP is releasing February jobs creation showing that private sector added 216,000 jobs.  Dow Jones was calling for 215,000 and Reuters was calling for 216,000.  This is a good figure ...
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Small Business Sputters

Posted: March 6, 2012 at 6:28 am

Small business is supposed to be the most important engine of the jobs market. Many economists believe that companies with fewer than 20 workers account for more than half of all ...
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Do Web Layoffs Work? (YHOO, GOOG, AOL, MSFT)

Posted: March 5, 2012 at 3:12 pm

Investors usually reward companies for announcing layoffs.  Getting more from fewer workers adds to margins and hopefully to net income.  The more serious question is what a new round of layoffs means ...
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What If Walmart Were Tesco?

Posted: March 5, 2012 at 6:37 am

Tesco (NASDAQ: TESO), the largest retailer in the UK, said it would add 20,000 jobs between now and 2014. It is the largest employer in the UK, with 270,000 workers. ...
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Jobless Claims, Personal Income & Spending Weigh on Unemployment

Posted: March 1, 2012 at 8:37 am

The data this morning from the Labor Department is not great news, but it is not awful news either.  The weekly jobless claims came in 351,000 from a revised figure ...
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Bernanke Remains Cautiously Optimistic on Growth & Employment

Posted: February 29, 2012 at 10:12 am

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is delivering his semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress before the Committee on Financial Services at the U.S. House of Representatives this morning.    ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Trends Still Looking Better Than Worse

Posted: February 23, 2012 at 8:35 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims were unchanged after a revision higher the week before.  That puts the claims for the last week ...
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Low Interest Rates Threatening Your Pension

Posted: February 21, 2012 at 5:00 pm

Have you been wondering what these extremely low interest rates are doing to pension plans?  Quite simply, they are driving up funding obligations of employers.  Fitch Ratings issued a report ...
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Foxconn, Apple Supplier, Raises Worker Comp

Posted: February 19, 2012 at 8:36 am

The question will be is it enough?. After wide-spread consumer complaints about the manufacturing worker conditions at Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) supplier Foxconn, and Apple's alliance with watchdog Fair Labor Association, Foxconn has ...
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