Jobs Report

indicating a healthy jobs market even with the unemployment rate ticking up slightly to 3.9%. U.S. employers added 275,000 jobs in February, backing up the robust economy touted by President Joe ... Read More

Another Jobs Report Is About to Land. What the Fed Is Watching.

A resilient U.S. economy is expected to help drive solid employment growth in March. But higher payroll gains are unlikely to shift the Federal Reserve ... jobs. While the ADP report typically ... Read More

Growth, Spending, Jobs… This Economy’s a Fairy Tale. Why Fed Faces a Conundrum.

Consumers are still spending, unemployment remains low. Fresh figures on Friday from the core personal consumption expenditures index—the Federal Reserve ... 1,900 jobs. That’s less than ... Read More

Jobs Report Today: Hiring Blows Past Projections

Friday's jobs ... the fed funds rate. “The monetary policy implications of the March employment report are minimal,” writes Dante DeAntonio, Moody’s Analytics labor economist. While payroll ... Read More

What to expect from the March jobs report

February’s jobs report came ... with a rising unemployment rate, implies that employers can hire and retain talent less expensively, Sojourner told CNN. Once the Federal Reserve began hiking ... Read More

March jobs report forecast: 200,000 new jobs and 3.8% unemployment

Federal Reserve wants to see slower hiring and wage growth before cutting interest rates The U.S. economy keeps chugging along and producing lots of new jobs. Wall Street expects another sizable ... Read More

March 2024 Jobs Report Preview: 5 Things To Look For

S&P 500 index gained 10% in the first quarter, dispelling uncertainty of interest rate cuts. Since the last jobs report, regional banks benefited from Federal Reserve's dovish stance on interest ... Read More

Takeaways from the February jobs report

The February jobs report showed a labor market ... consistent with inflation and productivity growth. Fed take note: this is not an overheating labor market.” The uptick in the unemployment rate ... Read More

Bullard says February job report increases chance of Fed cutting interest rates sooner

A former top Federal Reserve official said Friday that the U.S. February job report increased the likelihood that the central bank would make its first interest rate cut soon. “I see this as ... Read More

February Jobs Report: A Mulligan After January Shocker

Employers added 275,000 jobs in February, according to the Labor Department’s closely watched monthly report ... down by a collective 167,000 jobs. Unemployment also ticked higher in February. Read More

March jobs-report forecast: 200,000 new jobs and a 3.8% unemployment rate

The U.S. economy keeps chugging along and producing lots of new jobs. Wall Street expects another sizable gain in March, if somewhat smaller than in the prior month. The economy is forecast to ... Read More

What to expect from the March jobs report

The March jobs report is expected to show the U.S. labor market again defied ... fears of reacceleration and the risk that the Fed cannot ease policy this year," Bank of America said in an analyst ... Read More