Job Data Passes Threshold Where Recessions Dwell
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When the number of Americans out of work starts to rise sharply, a recession occurs. By that token, the latest figure for unemployed workers is, at the least, a danger sign.
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The first economic data to emerge since last month's credit woes suggest a modest impact on business and consumers.
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Job growth is reaching its peak, confirming that economic activity is slowing from its earlier brisk pace to a more sustainable rate.
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Unearthing values in the post-bubble wreckage.
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U.S. jobs growth skidded to a near-halt in December and the unemployment rate hit a two-year high, according to a government report on Friday that raised recession fears and chances of more interest-rate cuts.
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Half of the technology job losses since 2001 have come since the recession officially ended.
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NEW YORK - The stock market that meandered through September could gain some direction in the week ahead as the Labor Department releases its latest report on job creation.    For all the economic data that Wall Street parses and analyzes every day, the jobs report, scheduled for release Friday, is one of the few that seem to encapsulate the economy as a whole...
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Financial markets were hit hard by a disappointing jobs report.
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The US has seen the first decline in employment since August 2003, in a fresh sign that a recession is looming.
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Jobs growth skidded to a near-halt in December and the unemployment rate hit a two-year high, according to a government report on Friday that raised recession fears and chances of more interest-rate cuts.
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THE US IT sector lost more than 403,000 jobs between April 2001 and 2004 and the future of the job market is looking bleak. According to a report prepared by the University of Illinois-Chicago, half of the
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The US labor market escaped a quagmire in October, churning out a seven-month record of 337,000 jobs -- far more than predicted by Wall Street.
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The odds of a U.S. recession stand  at nearly 50 percent amid a spate of data showing a weakening  labor market, signs of more credit tightening and turmoil in  the financial markets, the latest Blue Chip Economic forecast  is projecting.
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Employers trimmed jobs from their payrolls in January, according to a much anticipated government jobs report Friday that showed the first decline in employment in four years and raised new concerns about the risk of recession for the weakening U.S. economy.
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The US economic outlook has suddenly darkened in the wake of data showing a stalling of the job growth machine, raising risks that a housing slump will lead to a full-blown recession, analysts say.
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Forecasters said on average that there was a 47 percent chance the economy would shrink in the first quarter of 2008. Reading between the lines, recession is now unavoidable.
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Fewer Americans filed jobless claims last week and growth in worker productivity slowed sharply in the third quarter, government data showed on Thursday, hinting that conditions in the sluggish U.S. labor market have improved.