ThinkstockBen Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee have decided to keep rates the same. That should have been expected by everyone. What was going to be different here about this FOMC meeting is…
Guillaume Paumier / Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-3.0Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was the No. 1 company on the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the 50 Best Places to Work for 2013. This is the…
ThinkstockThe Conference Board has just released its Employment Trends Index, which showed that the November data edged lower. With the report coming after Friday’s key unemployment rate and payrolls data, this report may be…
ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the payroll-to-population (P2P) employment rate fell from 45.7% in October to 43.7%…
ThinkstockFiguring out what today’s data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) really means probably will have to wait until next month. November nonfarm payrolls showed an increase of 146,000 jobs, and the unemployment…
courtesy of Monster.comEmployment services company Monster Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: MWW) released its data on jobs, and it was better than many other reports on U.S. employment. According to its November report: Monster Employment Index…
ThinkstockMany experts say that small businesses create most of the new jobs in America. But entrepreneurs struggled over the course of the recession as banks withdrew lending to these companies, most of which had…
ThinkstockEven though today’s report on new claims for unemployment benefits showed that fewer new claims were made last week, Gallup’s unadjusted unemployment rate for November rose to 7.8% from 7.0% in October. Seasonally adjusted,…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. There was a big drop of 25,000 claims, down to 370,000. Bloomberg had a consensus estimate of…
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) may be announcing a restructuring effort today, but the move may not seem too extreme compared to past restructurings. What feels different here is that the bank is pointing where…
Today’s report on nonfarm productivity and unit labor costs was a revision report but it was lifted higher. Third-quarter productivity was revised to 2.9% and unit labor costs to -1.9%. Dow Jones had estimates of…
The national employment report from ADP each month is ostensibly a front-running number to the nonfarm payrolls data that is issued along with the unemployment report by the Labor Department each month. ADP has…
While the U.S. unemployment rate has improved markedly from the double digits during the recession, it was still stuck at 7.9% as of October. Some regions fare far better than rest of the country,…
Spain’s number of unemployed reached a the staggering level of 4,907,817 last month, according to the government’s labor arm. That almost certainly means that the 25% unemployment figure the nation announced recently will go…
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) continues to shrink, and eventually it may have a news staff that simply is not large enough to cover all of the subjects that the paper does now.…