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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% ...
Not everyone was lining up to celebrate the latest jobs report; Rosenberg Research’s David Rosenberg actually makes the case that beneath the strong headline number, there are signs of cracks in the ...
The golden age of government support for clean energy is over. A new fraught era of energy policy has begun.
The British pound and U.K. government bonds were paring back some of their losses on Thursday, having tumbled the previous ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Traders are fleeing any remaining bets on the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates on July 30. Odds of a July rate cut sank to 4.7% on Thursday after the June jobs report came in stronger than ...
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 ...
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.