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Weekly Jobless Claims Show Major Drop in the Army of the Unemployed

Posted: May 23, 2013 at 8:50 am

Weekly jobless claims data have been released by the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics and may offer at least some support for a very weak equity market this ...
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NetApp Masks Company Earnings and Poor Guidance with Layoffs, Dividend, and Buyback

Posted: May 21, 2013 at 4:29 pm

NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) is reporting its fourth-quarter corporate earnings and it is throwing in a larger share buyback plan and is initiating a dividend payment to support the news. ...
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Spending Will Trump Sequestration; Better Unemployment and GDP in 2013 and 2014

Posted: May 20, 2013 at 10:50 am

The message you need to send to Washington D.C. is that consumer spending is outshining the ill effects of the sequestration cuts. A new report from the National Association for ...
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LinkedIn Draws the Line at the World’s Oldest Profession

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 12:08 pm

On Monday, LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) revised the user agreement for its online professional network to exclude certain businesses and at least one profession. The company said that it has ...
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Workers Taking the Most Sick Days

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 6:21 am

Sick days are estimated to cost the U.S. economy $84 billion each year. According to the latest data released in a joint study by Gallup and Healthways, some professions miss ...
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States Where Teenagers Cannot Find Work

Posted: May 8, 2013 at 6:56 am

For the past four and a half years, teen unemployment has exceeded 20%. As of April 2013, 24.1% of teens seeking jobs were unable to find work, according to a ...
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More Good News About Jobs and Unemployment for 2013

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 10:20 am

Last Friday's unemployment report managed to come in much better than anticipated. Some even may have questioned whether the computers at the Labor Department were making proper calculations and tabulations ...
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No Relief for Unemployed in Spain

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 6:50 am

Unemployment in Spain has been above 24% for several months, and there is nothing about the nation's economy that will reverse that. The central government has complained that austerity is ...
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A Very Pleasant Payrolls and Unemployment Surprise for April

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 8:45 am

The Labor Department is out with the April Employment Situation Report, and it is a report that the market will view positively. Some are going to question the unemployment rate ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Offer Hope Ahead of Unemployent and Payrolls Due Friday

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 8:55 am

The Labor Department is out with its latest weekly jobless claims report, which is also the last report ahead of Friday's key unemployment and payrolls report. Claims fell by 18,000 ...
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Ford Adds Jobs to Keep Up F-150 Production

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 6:40 am

Sales of the Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) F-150 flagship pickup have surged so strongly that the U.S. car company will add workers to build more of them. Analysts have ...
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More Layoffs or Worker Furloughs Coming to Alcoa

Posted: May 1, 2013 at 10:55 am

Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) remains pressured to build up its earnings in a very difficult environment. Now the company has announced that it will "review 460,000 metric tons of smelting ...
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ADP and TrimTabs Foreshadow Poor April Payrolls and Unemployment for Friday

Posted: May 1, 2013 at 9:15 am

We already warned ahead of the number that the first-quarter gross domestic product would come in well under estimates. Now we have a setup for a weaker-than-expected April payrolls and ...
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10,000 More Dollar Store Job Openings!

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 3:35 pm

The economy is still tough and jobs are not yet plentiful. That is likely one part of why the rise of the dollar store theme is now becoming a secular trend rather ...
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Employment Costs Rise Less Than Expected in First Quarter

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 9:00 am

The U.S. Employment Cost Index in the first quarter of 2013 is looking very tame, and the so-called wage inflation is running very low. The Labor Department showed that the ...
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