Payrolls post first decline in 4 years
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Payrolls shrank in August for the first time in four years, the Labor Department reported on Friday, prompting calls for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates before credit market turmoil drags the economy into recession.
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Annual growth in workers&#39; pay slowed unexpectedly in the three months to September to its lowest this year, official data has shown, providing more
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The number of U.S. workers signing  up for first-time jobless benefits fell to a seasonally  adjusted 308,000 last week, slightly lower than expected, a  government report on Thursday showed.
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Employers cut 4,000 jobs in August, the first time in four years that monthly hiring contracted, the government said on Friday in a report certain to boost pressure on Federal Reserve policy makers to cut interest rates.
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The number of Americans signing up for first-time jobless benefits plunged last week. The government says that partly reflects a tapering off of filings related to Hurricane Charley.
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WASHINGTON -- The nation's unemployment rate dipped to 4.5 percent in February even as big losses of construction and factory jobs restrained overall payroll growth. Wages grew briskly.
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WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate dropped to 4.5 percent, and workers got fatter paychecks in February, even as bad winter weather sent a bit of a chill through US job growth.
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Stocks tumbled on Friday after data showed monthly hiring contracted for the first time in four years, fanning recession fears and adding pressure for a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut.
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UK business investment fell at the start of 2007, the first such decline for more than a year, official figures show.
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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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An IEEE-USA survey of IT professionals reported a 1.5% decrease in median income from 2002 to 2003, the first drop since the organization began surveying members in 1972.
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The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits dipped to 334,000 last week, the government said on Thursday, matching economists' forecasts.
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The number of jobless Germans fell below four million for the first time in four years in November, figures show.
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Since the Baltimore Orioles finished first in 1997, their standing has fallen, their payroll has dropped and their attendance has plummeted.
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Workers filing for initial unemployment benefits fell 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 328,000 last week, a government report said, to a slightly lower level than Wall Street expected.
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The number of people in Britain claiming unemployment benefits have fallen for a fourth month in a row in January, with the unemployment rate settling at 2.9 percent.
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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.