Jobs News August Jobs Report Shows Labor Markets Cooling That May Persuade The Fed To Pause

Absent the jobs report, let's look at other labor market indicators

Today is Thursday, Oct. 30, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ weekly report on jobless claims nationwide usually comes out. But with the government shutdown, it remains absent. Read More

"No hire, no fire" job market may no longer be a thing as big companies announce mass layoffs

Amazon and UPS on Tuesday announced tens of thousands of job cuts, the latest signal that the U.S. labor market is downshifting. Read More

Job Openings Were Flat In August. That May Be The Last Official Labor Data For a While

The number of job openings held steady at 7.2 million in August as the turnover remains low. It could be the last data the Bureau of Labor Statistics will put out for some time as a government ... Read More

The only jobs data we may see this week show labor market is cooling fast

The ADP National Employment Report, a measure of private employment in the U.S., said on Wednesday that payrolls at private employers declined by 32,000 jobs last month, signaling the labor market ... Read More

The Fed is expected to cut interest rates as job market shows signs of weakness

The Federal Reserve is expected to cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point because the central bank is more concerned about the job market than it is with battling inflation. Read More

Fed Leans Into Weaker Job Market to Justify Cuts

Chair Powell kicked off Wednesday’s news conference noting that the continued cooling of the labor market helped prompt officials to lower interest rates by a quarter percentage point. While the ... Read More

U.S. labor market was expanding in mid-October, new weekly ADP report shows

Job growth was cooling prior to the government shutdown, which started on Oct. 1 and has delayed the release of the September jobs report. Read More

The Job Market Is Slowing Down, Private Sector Data Shows

Reports from private companies painted a by-now-familiar picture of the job market in September: few were hiring, few were firing, and the labor market overall looked a little shaky. Read More

Absent a jobs report, here are some other ways of looking at the US labor market

(CNN) — On this particular Friday, at 8:30 a.m. ET, the Bureau of Labor Statistics was supposed to release the September jobs report. Instead, the agency behind the market-moving release — data that ... Read More