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The resurgence of small-cap stocks continued on Thursday. The Russell 2000 was up 0.6%, on track to close with a gain of 0.4% ...
The bond market is suggesting that the trend higher in yields is going to be sustainable. The yield on a 10-year Treasury note breached the 4.32% level, which was the moving average for the past 200 ...
The British pound and U.K. government bonds were paring back some of their losses on Thursday, having tumbled the previous ...
The stock market was poised to end the holiday-shortened week at record levels after the June payrolls report showed a surprising amount of resilience in the labor market. The S&P 500 was up 0.4%. The ...
Investors were feeling zen on Thursday ahead of monthly jobs data that will give the market a better sense of how tariffs are ...
Today’s jobs report handed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell exactly what he’s been asking for: time. With June payrolls rising by 147,000, unemployment edging down to 4.1%, and wage growth ...
It’s easy to take June’s robust headline payroll growth and lower unemployment at face value, but the details of Thursday's report do reveal some cooling patterns worth watching in the coming months.
The pace of wage growth slowed in June after a surprisingly robust showing in May. Average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 0.2% month over month in June, the BLS ...
After hitting a peak in early June, initial jobless claims have been sliding in recent weeks, and that continued to be the case at the end of last month. About 233,000 new unemployment insurance ...
The public sector added 73,000 jobs in June, a surprising gain driven by state and local government hiring. State government payrolls rose by 47,000 last month, driven largely by hiring in education.
Most of the updates to monthly jobs growth have been in the form of downward revisions so far this year, but the BLS added a combined 16,000 payrolls to its April and May estimates. May’s payroll ...
The number of Americans who newly filed for unemployment benefits fell last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, a welcome sign of strength in June's labor market as job growth exceeded ...
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