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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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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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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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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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Weekly Jobless Claims Brings Very Pleasant Surprise

Posted: April 25, 2013 at 8:40 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. Thursday's reading amounted to a good change from the prior week, as the weekly claims fell by ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Heat Back Up, Unemployment Next?

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 8:50 am

The 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 came in at 352,000 for ...
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Tame March CPI Supports Market Recovery

Posted: April 16, 2013 at 8:45 am

The U.S. Labor Department has provided retail inflation data via the March Consumer Price Index (CPI). CPI came in at -0.2% on the headline report, with only a gain of 0.1% ...
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Good Jobless Claims Meet Tame Import/Export Inflation

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 8:42 am

Weekly 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 ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Report Sets Up Weaker Payrolls Expectations

Posted: April 4, 2013 at 8:52 am

The 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 figure rose ...
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ADP Data Brings Lower Expectations for Payrolls and Unemployment Friday

Posted: April 3, 2013 at 8:35 am

We 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 ...
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TrimTabs Jobs Data Not as Rosy as Labor Department Nor as ADP

Posted: April 3, 2013 at 7:55 am

Each 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. ...
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Intuit Shows Only Small Optimism for Unemployment and Payrolls This Friday

Posted: April 2, 2013 at 9:15 am

This 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 ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Worse Than Expected on the Surface

Posted: January 10, 2013 at 8:53 am

The U.S. Labor Department may be getting a new chief soon, but the weekly jobless claims report and other reports are still coming out. This past week, weekly claims were ...
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Conference Board Employment & CEO Outlook Reports Better Than Labor Department Report

Posted: January 7, 2013 at 2:22 pm

The 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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