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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Consumers reopened their wallets and manufacturers slashed inventories, indicating they’re getting ready to ramp up production of more goods this year. Also contributing to growth were rising exports and falling imports. But ju…
With the economic recovery gaining steam, President Obama’s State of the Union address — and the GOP response — should be seen as a shift to a less activist approach. Feel-good rhetoric may be wiser than heavy-handed policies…
Tech layoffs came to just under 47,000 last year, according to employment-services firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Better still, during the next 10 years, the sector is forecast to have one of the fastest paces of job creati…
There’s no way to sugarcoat it: The U.S. job deficit is huge, and it will take years to fix. But investors shouldn’t become too pessimistic. America’s economy has the capacity to adapt and renew itself faster than many folks ex…