TrimTabs Investment Research indicates that the U.S. economy added between 195,000 and 225,000 jobs in the month of March. TrimTabs often has been conservative in its payrolls expectations.
ThinkstockADP private sector payrolls data was one of the key metrics we were looking for ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls reports. It is a large gain, but perhaps not quite as robust…
ThinkstockThis Friday will bring the highly anticipated Employment Situation report from the U.S. Department of Labor. Investors get many previews of what the unemployment and payrolls reports look like, but the official Labor Department…
ThinkstockThe March Manufacturing ISM Report on Business shows that the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) came in at 53.7%. Growth was reported in New Orders, Employment, Production and Inventories subcomponents. Supplier deliveries slowed in March.…
ThinkstockWhen the S&P 500 index rises more than 25% in a year, you have to figure that some of the largest U.S. corporations are doing pretty well. And you would be right. The cash…
ThinkstockJanet Yellen is still in her getting to know you phase of her tenure as Fed chairman. After spooking the markets at the last FOMC meeting on the timing of when interest rates will…
ThinkstockWhile carrying some student loan debt may be inevitable, higher and higher balances can strain finances for a decade or more. About 37 million Americans now owe more than $1 trillion on their student…
ThinkstockUnemployment in the United States dropped to 6.7% in February, well below the 10% level it reached at the worst of the Great Recession. While the figure is not as low as economist would…
ThinkstockThere are at least two stories about the skyrocketing cost of limes: one is a poor harvest in Mexico, and the other is the mob. The growers and the government want you to believe…
ThinkstockWe now have the report for personal income and spending for the month of February. This data is now effectively a month old, so we were only expecting the news to move markets if…
By International Monetary Fund , via Wikimedia CommonsThe International Monetary Fund will lend the financially crippled Ukraine government a loan between $14 billion and $18 billion. The package at least partially replaces a loan…
ThinkstockIf everything goes as expected, the state of Connecticut will become the first state to enact legislation raising the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, in line with President Obama’s proposed national increase…
ThinkstockThe unusually cold and snowy weather that persisted through the first months of 2014 is likely to trim 0.4% from U.S. real GDP growth in the first quarter. But things will get better for…
ThinkstockThe government calls them “people who are employed part time for economic reasons.” In other words, these people want full-time jobs, but cannot get them. More than seven million Americans fell into the category…
ThinkstockAmerican’s views of the U.S. economy cannot be measured as uniform. Income and job prospects vary from region to region and from income group to income group. Younger people continue to have more trouble…