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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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Sell in May and Go Away 2013, Earnings Season Scorecard

Posted: May 1, 2013 at 12:22 pm

The first-quarter earnings season is peaking this week, as far as the number of companies on a normal calendar. Corporate earnings have been weaker than expected in a manner of ...
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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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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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Why Weak Payrolls May Actually Be Good for the Markets

Posted: April 5, 2013 at 9:55 am

This will sound highly counterintuitive, but the extremely weak payrolls report from the Labor Department may in fact be good news for those who have wanted an opportunity to get back ...
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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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Conference Board Confirms Solid Jobs Data, but Warns of Sequestration

Posted: March 11, 2013 at 10:25 am

The Conference Board has released its monthly Employment Trends Index for the month of February, and it very much confirms the strength seen in Friday's nonfarm and private sector payrolls ...
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How Did the U.S. Postal Service Actually Add 4,500 Jobs in February?

Posted: March 9, 2013 at 8:37 am

There are always some interesting factoids in various industries and sectors in each monthly breakdown of the Employment Situation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Friday's BLS report was a ...
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Unemployment and Jobs Have Rockin’ Good News

Posted: March 8, 2013 at 8:45 am

OK, so this is finally some rockin’ good news on the jobs front. The Labor Department is out with its key employment situation for the month of February. Due to ...
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Weak Unemployment and Payrolls Data in January Just Doesn’t Really Matter

Posted: February 1, 2013 at 8:51 am

The Labor Department is out with its critical monthly employment situation report. Wall St. will not exactly be cheering, although the news is not exactly awful. The unemployment rate is ...
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ADP Picks Up Payrolls and Unemployment Expectations

Posted: October 3, 2012 at 8:18 am

The big number of the week is of course the Labor Department's official nonfarm payrolls additions and the unemployment report. Today came one more bit of data from ADP, which ...
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