Private employers added 187,000 jobs in January, ADP announced Wednesday, 47,000 more then economists had predicted. That marks the fourth straight month of significant job gains — a trend that suggests the U.S. labor market i…
The all-important January employment reports come out this week. Also worth watching for are a host of earnings releases, led by economic bellwhether UPS. The package deliverer is expected to post strong results.
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Amid some promising signs — which are turning the heads of even some bears — structural unemployment continues to be painful as the ranks of the long-term jobless keep swelling. This is a distinction that should be far more c…
If the stock market reflected the entire economy, happy days would surely be here again. But, alas, it reflects just the profit potential of public companies. And for millions of unemployed Americans, that’s proving to be no he…
In Asia Thursday the Nikkei 225 Index edged down 0.1% to 9,685 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index remained virtually unchanged at 22,884. Markets in China remained closed.
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