The U.S. labor market probably started 2025 the way it spent most of last year: Generating decent, but unspectacular, job growth.
Economists are expecting an overall healthy reading, with 169,000 net new jobs created in the month and the unemployment rate ...
Trump, via the Elon Musk-spearheaded Department of Government Efficiency, is in the process of gutting some federal agencies.
Across a number of metrics, the labor market looks remarkably stable even as it has cooled. Monthly jobs growth has stayed solid and the unemployment rate has barely budged from its current level of 4 ...
Stock index futures showed little movement on Friday as traders awaited the key January jobs report. S&P 500 futures (SPX) +0.1%, Nasdaq 100 futures (US100:IND) were unchanged, and Dow futures (INDU) ...
The US stock market outperforms due to superior economic production factors: capital, technology, and labor, making it ideal ...
The Federal Reserve’s record of forecasting has frequently led it to respond too late to changes in economic and financial conditions. Read more here.
Defying fears of a pandemic-driven Great Depression and bucking Federal Reserve interest rate hikes as well, the U.S. job ...
Economists forecast a steady pace of hiring, slightly dampened by fires and cold snaps and clouded by annual data adjustments.
The January jobs report, to be released Friday morning by the Labor Department, will provide the first look at employment in ...
Consensus forecasts call for a still-robust 170,000 jobs added last month, though that’d be the lowest January total since ...