The U.S. Department of Labor has given what is the last official government report including key jobs data, via weekly jobless claims, ahead of Friday's key unemployment and payrolls report.
Investors have been using the ADP Payrolls report the TrimTabs employment growth report as a preliminary tool to judge and predict what the Labor Department report will say.
Investors have been using the ADP Payrolls report, released 48 hours ahead of the Labor Department report, as a preliminary tool to judge and predict what the payrolls report will be.
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The U.S. Labor Department has turned in yet another stellar weekly jobless claims report.
The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) report shows that the number of openings rose to 5.526 million in September from 5.377 million in August.
Research suggest that job stress contributes to the amount of life lost on the job and varies in amount by such factors as race, education level and gender.
When the September payrolls reading from the Labor Department was so weak, it was TrimTabs that proved more accurate.
Each month we get a sneak peak that is a kind of preview for the Labor Department's nonfarm and private sector payrolls via the ADP National Employment Report.
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All in all, the Labor Department data offers signs of hope for the October employment report that will be out at the start of November. The outside data is signaling something else.
The national unemployment rate for September was 5.1%, the same as the previous month, although the American black community suffered more than most.
You just have to love the stock market and its schizophrenic behavior around the payrolls reports from the U.S. Department of Labor.
For the week ending September 26, seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims were up by 10,000 from the prior week to 277,000.
The U.S. economy now has seen about seven straight months in which weekly jobless claims have come in under 300,000.
