While the final jobs report for 2024 underscores how the US labor market has turned the corner since the pandemic, there’s plenty of uncertainty as to what 2025 could bring for the trajectory of ...
Friday’s jobs report was the 48th and final monthly employment update of President Joe Biden’s presidential term, a tenure featuring significant improvement across the labor market which Biden ...
Photo: Getty Images The U.S. labor market finished 2024 strong, with a December jobs report that surpassed economists’ predictions. Employers added 256,000 jobs in the last month of 2024 ...
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - U.S. job growth unexpectedly accelerated in December while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% as the labor market ended the year on a solid footing, reinforcing ...
Get the Real Story Behind Every Major Earnings Report Friday’s official jobs report is expected to shed light on the cooling U.S. labor market in December 2024, as economists project slower ...
If the latest job numbers have you wondering about the interplay between the labor market, inflation, and the Fed — you don’t need to dig out your old macroeconomics textbook to find out.
In December, Fed Chair Jay Powell said that the labor market didn’t need any more softening to get inflation to resume its path downward. At the time, all signs pointed to a cooling, but still ...
It was a better-than-expected number amid a labor market that has been slowly cooling for two years. The unemployment rate edged down to 4.1 percent. Although it’s too early to call it a trend ...
WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits fell to an 11-month low last week, pointing to a stable labor market, though a slowdown in ...
The U.S. labor market remains healthy and the Federal Reserve can take a gradual and patient approach to future rate cuts, Boston Fed President Susan Collins said Thursday. “My concerns about ...
People are staying in their jobs with greater frequency after significant churn in the labor market in recent years, Labor Department data shows. Quits fell to just more than 3 million ...