No Unemployment Help From Weekly Jobless Claims
The U.S. Labor Department has reported that weekly jobless claims came in unchanged from the prior week at 370,000. The prior week’s reading was revised from a preliminary report of 367,000 up to a…
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Newest first · Page 79Chesapeake Discloses CEO Well Participation Dollar Amounts… Huge!
SEC filings are often long and full of details that make most investors have a glassing-over look in their eyes. Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) has filed its proxy materials for its annual meeting and…
Weekly Jobless Claims Bring No Real Unemployment Help
The U.S. Labor Department has turned in its weekly jobless claims data and the report is pretty much in-line with expectations but is still not indicative of any great jobs recovery right now. Weekly…
Lower Unemployment & Payrolls Data Stump The Markets
The Labor Department is out with its report on the labor situation for April and the report is going to raise some eyebrows. The official unemployment rate mysteriously came in 8.1% versus 8.2% in…
LinkedIn Soars After Blowing Past Earnings and Raising Guidance (LNKD)
LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) has reported its latest earnings report and investors are going to be watching closely for valuation concerns versus growth. The professional social network reported some 161 million members. It also…
Weekly Jobless Claims Previews Unemployment & Payrolls Data Ahead of Friday
The Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims and it is looking like the weekly claims will be heading back in the right direction if today’s reading is not just…
ADP & TrimTabs Showing Much Weaker Payrolls Ahead of Unemployment Report
The market better get ready for a low reading on the jobs front this Friday when it comes to payrolls. There are two very weak readings which are going to sour the expectation, one…
Caterpillar Labor Problems and Burdens of Success
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) faces a relatively small strike at its Joliet, Ill., plant. The members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers will walk out when their six-year contract expires. The strike shows the…
Global Unemployment Worry Grows–Internatioal Labor Organization
The Internatioal Labor Organization wing of the UN reported that unemployment worldwide will worsen this year. In the summary, the ILO’s researchers stated Over the past year, labour markets have been affected by the…
Another Poor Weekly Jobless Claims Reading
The Labor Department has reported another weak figure in the weekly jobless claims, and this may sour the tone for next week’s unemployment report. Jobless claims fell by an adjusted 1,000 to 388,000 for…
As Employment Surges in Six States, Texas Rules
Six states added, in total, 787,000 jobs during the past year, according to government data for March. This makes them the primary engines of national employment growth over that period. Nearly a third of these…
Jobless Claims Leading To Worse Economic & Jobs Prospects
All of the great jobs gains may have peaked if the Labor Department’s report on weekly jobless claims is going to remain static. While the official figure of claims is down by 2,000 for…
Cities with Double the National Unemployment Rate
When the U.S. labor market is discussed, the national figures naturally take center stage. But the employment picture across the country can be very different — not just between states, but from city to…
Jobs Data Goes From Bad To Worse
The Labor Department’s report on weekly jobless claims may have the caveat that Easter was earlier but it is ugly on the surface. The weekly jobless claims rose 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 380,000. …
Why No One Wants to Be a Lumberjack
Americans do not want to be news reporters, broadcasters, waitresses, soldiers, dishwashers, dairy farmers or oil rig workers. Most of all , they do not want to be lumberjacks. That is according to new…