The last jobs report before the mid-term election next month was, like so many since the beginning of the year, a mixed bag. Unemployment in September … Read more
Private Jobs Decline in September
It’s jobs report week in the U.S., and so far the news is not encouraging. For the first time in eight months, the economy lost private sector jobs, … Read more
Economic Index Improves, But Eyes Are On Jobless Claims Rise
For as dreary as August was for the weather and investors, it turns out the month may have been a bit better than expected. The Conference Board’s … Read more
Tech Recruiters Sweetening Offers to Lure Workers
Since May, almost a third of IT recruiters have had to sweeten their offers to tech professionals in order to get them to sign on with a new company. The … Read more
Little Hiring Seen for Rest of Year
You’ve heard that old saw that if something quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it’s probably a duck? Might as well apply it to the U.S. … Read more
Jobs Numbers Improve, Even As Unemployment Rate Edges Up
The unemployment rate rose for the first time in four months in August, while private sector employers added 67,000 jobs. Overall, the U.S. economy lost … Read more
Wall Street Discounts ADP Job Loss Report
The U.S. lost 10,000 private sector jobs in August, according to the ADP National Employment Report. Released this morning, the report says the loss came … Read more
Consumer Confidence Improves, But Jobs Numbers Hard to Predict
It’s numbers week in the U.S. again. The time of the month when the official government employment data makes its appearance, influencing stock … Read more
Unemployment Claims Data Adds More Uncertainty
Data, data everywhere, But what of it to think? Data, data everywhere, It makes the markets shrink. My apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but the … Read more
Economic Trends Index Rises, But S-L-O-W-L-Y
Another sign of the weak U.S. recovery: The Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index, released this morning, added three-tenths of a point in July, … Read more