Thursday has been a very busy day when it comes down to economic releases. We have seen data from the Conference Board on Consumer Confidence for December and National Association of Realtors data on…
Economists believe that the US recovery is well enough underway so that the private sector will begin to add jobs. It happened to a limited extent in the fourth quarter of last year. Some…
We examined nine companies whose plans to revive their fortunes have not succeeded and found several common themes. Managements often fail to appreciate the size of the challenges they face. Competition is fiercer than…
In case you couldn’t wait for just one more after-the-fact observation report from the Federal Reserve, the January Beige Book has been released. While the economy is gaining, the Fed noted that the economy…
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that job bias claims reached a record in its fiscal year which ended last September. As evidence, the agency said reports by workers “hit an unprecedented level…
You saw the convoluted data from the Labor Department this morning with reports that unemployment magically went down to 9.4% and with 103,000 added to the non-Farm Payrolls. This morning brought on additional data…
The US Labor Department has released the Unemployment data and the change in non-Farm Payrolls for December-2010. The headline figure on unemployment is 9.4% but the more closely followed figure of the non-Farm Payrolls…
The Labor Department is out with its latest round of weekly jobless claims. There was a known seasonality and weather impact that could have played a part in the last week of the year. …
Working on a oil rig is a bad job. Working as a software engineer is great. “Twelve-hour shifts, exposure to the elements in hostile environments, low pay, high risk of injury and isolation from…
The rate at which people are losing jobs in the United States has decreased, according to economic data. There is also information, which includes the December ADP report, that suggests that more people have…
ADP is out with its pre-unemployment and payrolls figure with its guess for what happened on the jobs front in December. ADP is often not on target, but the number shows a forecast for…
Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) is in the right spot at the right time in today’s economic recovery. It is a trade-down economic play, but the dollar store segment has been successful in grabbing…
The weekly jobless claims will sound great on the surface for the last report of the year. Much of this is due to seasonality as many were not heading to the jobless lines. This…
The U.S. Labor Department is out with its latest round of weekly jobless claims. Last week’s figure came to a drop of 3,000 on a revised basis to 420,000 versus 423,000 a week earlier. …
President Obama will host a meeting for a number of large company CEOs in Washington this week. The heads of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), among…