The labor market may not be cratering, but it does not look very strong. This week, a private report found 42,000 new jobs ...
The U.S. economy shed jobs in October amid losses in the government and retail sectors, while cost-cutting and the adoption ...
A new report largely blames "disruptive technology” and cuts to government spending for a high number of job losses this year ...
The report by private consulting firm Challenger, Gray, & Christmas is more important because the ongoing shutdown has delayed official government reports.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has suspended payroll reports during the government shutdown, but other data sources are ...
U.S. services sector activity picked up in October amid a solid increase in new orders, but subdued employment pointed to ...
A weakening U.S. labor market is a risk for both the U.S. economy and markets right now. But the most closely watched numbers — the rate of new jobs created and the official unemployment rate — don’t ...
Jerome Powell said the labor market's outlook hasn't changed much since the central bank's September meeting, when it penciled in two more rate cuts this year.
Welcome to jobs Friday — except there’s no U.S. employment report today. Blame the latest government shutdown in Washington. That’s not to say Wall Street and the Federal Reserve are flying blind.
Though the stock market has held up, the yield on the 10-year T-note has been falling over the last couple days. Markets have been doing their best to digest all of this uncertainty over the looming ...
Before Wednesday, economists and markets were betting on a December rate cut. After Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s comments, they ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) slammed President Donald Trump's administration for withholding key economic data as the ...