Job layoffs in August were a notable improvement from July. However, the 2015 year-to-date total is up 31% from the same period a year ago....
The U.S. jobs report showed 105,696 pink slips were handed out last month as job cuts skyrocketed to the highest level in four years....
There is another side to the U.S. unemployment problem: Believe it or not, there are three million jobs going...
When bad news is good news for stock markets you know just how convoluted the current economic environment is.
According to the May
The last time the U.S. economy suffered through a double-dip...
While a surge in corporate profits reflect an improving economy, several government reports show that the United States continues to be plagued by...
Any speculation that U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had his finger on the "exit strategy" trigger has been silenced....
Sooner or later, mounting losses on commercial real estate could crash through the market's 2009 optimism and send the economy and stocks into a ...
Stocks have staged surprise rebounds after seemingly poor payroll reports half a dozen times in the past year. But the one time that there was...
New statistics from the Labor Department today (Friday) will likely confirm that the U.S. economy is in a deeper hole than previously...
November payrolls fell by much less than expected - declining by just 11,000 - and the unemployment rate fell to 10.0%, the U.S. Department of Labor...
[Editor's Note: This is Part I of a two-part story that examines the U.S....
Welcome to the jobless recovery. The U.S. unemployment rate zoomed to an unexpected 10.2% in October, piercing the double-digit barrier for the first...
Productivity at U.S. businesses blew away forecasts in the third quarter and initial unemployment claims dropped to a 10-month low last week the...
U.S. consumers curtailed spending in September for the first time in five months the government reported on Friday. Combined with a weak report on...
The stock market may have rallied, but the economy is threatening to erase those gains. This report shows you the three factors choking the recovery...