courtesy of AppleSina News reports that Foxconn, which makes components for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) products among others, may open a factory in the United States. Among the sites being evaluated are Detroit and…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has reported its change in weekly jobless claims. Last week was of course skewed by Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast, and now that we have seen an unemployment report last…
Wikimedia CommonsBoeing Co. (NYSE: BA) did pretty much what we expect other aerospace and defense companies to do. The company waited for the outcome of the presidential election, and now it is outlining how…
ThinkstockFor the fourth year in a row, business students from around the world rated Google as the company they would most like to work for. The World’s Most Attractive Employers 2012 report, produced by…
Wikimedia CommonsGoldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) has trimmed the number of partners at the firm to 407, according to a report from Reuters. In February the firm listed 438 partners. The overall change…
ThinkstockSpain’s Ministry of Employment and Social Security released data showing that unemployment rose 2.7% in October, which translated into a jobless count of “4.833.521 personas.” If the figures are accurate, Spain’s unemployment rate continues…
thinkstockThe solar sector’s problems may reach far and wide, but the employment around the industry actually is still growing. A new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association will be formally released in about…
thinkstockAfter a highly controversial drop in the unemployment rate to 7.8% from 8.1% in September, we now have the October unemployment rate announcement from the Labor Department. The official unemployment rate for October is…
ThinkstockAtlanta Federal Reserve President Dennis Lockhart suggested in a speech today in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that the Fed needs to look beyond the headline unemployment rate and additions to non-farm payrolls if the U.S. job…
ThinkstockWe have two more key economic and labor reports ahead of Friday’s key payrolls and unemployment report. The third-quarter preliminary nonfarm productivity and unit labor costs have been released at the same time as…
ThinkstockThe ADP National Employment Report for the month of October is out and it shows under its new methodology that the U.S. private sector added some 158,000 jobs in the month. Dow Jones was…
ThinkstockMore bad news is coming on the jobs front, if Challenger, Gray & Christmas is right in its assessment. The report for the month of October shows that layoffs rose by 41% from the…
The EU statistics agency Eurostat reports that the unemployment rate in the eurozone climbed to a record 11.6% in September. That was up from the 11.5% reported for August, and exceeded the 11.5% estimate…
ThinkstockThe markets may have been closed for two trading days this week due to the hurricane, but key economic data is still likely to be released this week from the Labor Department’s read on…
Package delivery giant United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said yesterday that it plans to hire 55,000 seasonal workers to sort, load, and help deliver packages during the coming holiday season. The total matches…