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

Jobs report smashes forecasts as red hot labor market confounds Wall Street

Earlier this week, payroll-processing group ADP said private-sector hiring improved to around 184,000 last month, well ahead of Wall Street's 140,000 forecast. Wage gains for job switchers surged to ... Read More

The stock market is taking a hot March jobs report in stride: Here’s why.

Another round of red-hot U.S. jobs data Friday put a deeper chill on expectations the Federal Reserve will begin in June to deliver a series of interest ... Read More

Jobs Report Today: What to Watch

It's Jobs Friday! Economists predict that the official employment report will ... Earlier this week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said there were signs that labor market conditions weren ... Read More

What's next after big Q1? More — and a huge proxy fight

A big gain could spook ... the Oct. 27 market bottom, second-best among the Dow stocks after the 61% gain for American Express (AXP) . Aside from the jobs report, the week ahead does not ... Read More

Why March’s Hot Jobs Report Could Be Bad News For Markets

WSJ’s Dion Rabouin explains what this latest jobs report says about the economy. Photo: Justin Sullivan Cicada Map Shows States Where Trillions of Bugs Will Emerge My Millennial Mind Is ... Read More

What You Need Know Ahead of Friday's Closely Watched Monthly US Jobs Report

When the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its ... hiring market could push the Fed to cut rates faster and sooner to help stimulate business and stave off a recession. A jobs report that ... Read More

‘Eye-popping’ March jobs report shows labor market and U.S. economy are still going strong

“Eye-popping” is how senior economist Sam Bullard of Wells Fargo described the March jobs report ... market and broader economy would slow later in the year. Why? The strong employment data ... Read More

Today's jobs report shows economy added booming 303K jobs in March, unemployment at 3.8%

Can anything slow down the U.S. labor market? Hiring accelerated in March as employers added a booming 303,000 jobs ... could fuel inflation, continued to moderate last month. Still, the sizzling ... Read More

March jobs report kicks off new quarter: What to know this week

This week's jobs report will ... said that the job market and the economy are strong right now. "That means that we don't need to be in a hurry to cut," he said. In the week ahead, the focus ... Read More

Stock Market News: Dow Rebounds

For more jobs coverage, read here. Treasury yields rose after the report ... week in about a year, whereas the Nasdaq suffered its worst weekly loss in nearly a month, according to Dow Jones ... Read More

This week in Bidenomics: Too many jobs?

President Biden can once again brag about an economy creating way more jobs ... Open Market Committee," added Ryan Sweet, Chief US Economist at Oxford Economics, in an April 5 report. Read More