First Job Losses in 4 Years Raise Recession Fears
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Employers cut 17,000 jobs in January, the first decline in the work force in more than four years.
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The U.S. factory sector and the job market showed surprising weakness in data released on Thursday, raising concerns the Federal Reserve may need to deliver more interest rate cuts to shore up the economy.
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Stocks tumbled on Friday, driving major indexes down nearly 2 percent, as data showing the first monthly drop in payrolls in four years stoked fears on Wall Street that the economy was headed into recession.
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The US Labor Department said Thursday first-time applications for unemployment benefits fell last week for the first time in four weeks.
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Employers cut jobs for the first time in four years last month, the government reported yesterday, driving stock prices down in the United States and Europe and raising fears the slowdown in the housing and credit markets brought on by the crisis in subprime mortgages is spreading across the economy.
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The number of new people claiming for jobless benefits in the United States declined sharply last week, a sign that the recovery in the US labor marketmay be strengthening.
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Stock indexes tumbled more than 1.7 percent on Friday after the government announced the first monthly drop in payrolls in four years, fanning fears of a recession.
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The U.S. economy has entered a recession that will be more painful and drawn out than the usual downturn, the director of the Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey said on Friday.
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The number of U.S. workers seeking  first-time jobless claims plunged last week, as expected, after  surging the prior week during the start of the holiday season,  a government report showed on Thursday.
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Nervous employers cut 17,000 jobs in January, the first such reduction in more than four years and a sign that economy is in danger of stalling.
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Bush administration officials on Friday sought to ease fears the U.S. was tipping into recession after a government report showed the economy shed jobs for the first time in four years last month.
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US firmss have cut back on the total number of staff employed for the first time in four years, official data shows.
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With recession looming, there are pitfalls and opportunities.
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Factory production shrank in December for the first time in nearly a year, sparking fears the economy may be headed for recession.
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The U.S. economy shed 4,000 jobs in August, as layoffs in the mortgage and construction industries combined with the ongoing slide in manufacturing employment to produce the first such monthly decline in four years.
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Stocks slid on Friday, driving each of the major indexes more than 1 percent lower, as the government reported the first monthly drop in payrolls in four years, stoking market concerns about a recession.
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Lingering hopes that the U.S. economy might avert a recession withered Tuesday after the nation's service sector Â its banks, travel companies, contractors and stores, among others Â shrank for the first time in five years.