Markets Are Happy About Today's Jobs Report. Watch the Unemployment Rate.

The stock market is celebrating the jobs report. Maybe it shouldn ... But sometimes bad news really is bad news. The unemployment rate at 3.9% is half a percentage point above its level nine ... Read More

Breaking down the monthly BLS job report

Below are the most recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports on “The Employment Situation” — the bureau’s term for the monthly jobs report. Each report provides data on the ... Read More

State unemployment rate up slightly in October, job seekers increase

People wait in line to file for unemployment Friday, May 22, 2020, at the Little Rock office of the state Division of Workforce Services. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephen Swofford) Arkansas’ ... Read More

October Jobs Report May Clear the Way for the Fed to End Rate Hikes

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate edged up ... down from the 2.1% reading in the prior month’s report. “This downtick is due to the weak growth in October, as well as downward revisions to the ... Read More

October Jobs Report: Not So Strong After All

The economy added 150,000 jobs last month, bringing payroll gains back in line with their previous downward trend. The unemployment rate rose to ... today’s jobs report further reduces the ... Read More

October jobs growth slows more than expected, unemployment ticks up

Unemployment ticked higher to 3.9% compared with the 3.8% expected and 3.8% prior. The labor force participation rate, at 62.7%, ticked down from ... "The jobs report came in as I predicted ... Read More

US job growth cools in October to 150K while unemployment unexpectedly rises

The unemployment rate, meanwhile, unexpectedly ticked up ... report also contained steep downward revisions to job growth at the end of the summer. Gains for August and September were revised down ... Read More

The latest on markets, the jobs report and the economy

Last month, the unemployment rate ticked up slightly from ... of getting inflation down to its target of 2%, since it can lead to higher wages. But October's jobs report, which showed that 150,000 ... Read More

Job growth slowed to 150,000 in October, unemployment ticked up to 3.9%

The headline job growth number in Friday’s employment report ... down, meaning that there were 101,000 fewer jobs added in those two months than previously thought. The unemployment rate ... Read More

Bay Area jobs report: Latest numbers show signs of slowdown

There’s been a slowdown in job growth in the Bay Area, but it’s not all bad news. At Good Life Grocery ... that would mean the rate you pay on your credit card debt would drop, along with ... Read More

October jobs report: US economy adds 150,000 jobs in October, unemployment rises as auto strikes weigh

Job growth in America slowed in October and the unemployment rate ticked ... also ticked down slightly, to 34.3 from 34.4 in September. The largest jobs increases in Friday's report were seen ... Read More