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Thursday Economic Reports: Better Jobless Claims, Decent Retail Sales Meet Deflation

Posted: June 13, 2013 at 8:45 am

Thursday finally brought on a lot of new economic data for investors to peruse from the Labor Department and Commerce Department. This on the heels of several days in a ...
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State and Local Governments Are Adding Jobs Again

Posted: June 7, 2013 at 9:55 am

Remember all the talk about how sequestration was going to lead to endless numbers of firings and endless cuts in government services? Surprise! It did not really happen anywhere as ...
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May Unemployment and Payrolls Bring Choppy Seas, but Not All Bad

Posted: June 7, 2013 at 8:45 am

The U.S. Labor Department has released its unemployment and payrolls reading for the month of May. The data looks mixed on the surface. The bad news is that the official ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims Fail to Enthuse, Unemployment and Payrolls on Deck

Posted: June 6, 2013 at 8:50 am

The U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims report, the last real employment data ahead of Friday's key unemployment and payrolls report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
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ADP and TrimTabs Set Very Poor Tempo for Unemployment Report on Friday

Posted: June 5, 2013 at 8:45 am

The news for this coming Friday's unemployment and non-farm payrolls report is now expected to be a bit muted. ADP released its monthly jobs projection for the month of May, ...
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Full Unemployment and Payrolls Preview from BLS, ADP, Challenger and More

Posted: June 4, 2013 at 10:35 am

The Labor Department's Employment Situation report is due out this Friday. The investing community will get to find out whether they should have sold in May and gone away. This ...
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Weekly Jobless Claims and Q1 GDP Both Disappoint

Posted: May 30, 2013 at 8:55 am

Investors have two economic reports to chew over so far on Thursday morning. The Commerce Department issued a revision to first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) figure. We also got to ...
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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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Weekly Jobless Claims at a Five-Year Low

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 9:25 am

The Labor Department's report on weekly jobless claims continues to go against many of the headlines we are seeing elsewhere. Last week brought a drop to 323,000, the lowest weekly ...
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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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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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Consumer Confidence Shows Surprising Surge Higher

Posted: April 30, 2013 at 10:25 am

Economic readings are generally coming in weaker than expected, and you have to wonder how well the unemployment and payrolls report can come in this Friday. We have just seen ...
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