Bureau of Labor Statistics

The first post-polar vortex jobs report has been released and it was a shocker – in a good way. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Nonfarm Payrolls, which is one of the most closely followed gauges regarding the state of the economy, increased by 288K in the month of April. The...

The U.S. dollar was pressured lower on Friday, after U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a gain of 74,000 nonfarm jobs, the smallest increase in three years. Analysts had expected an incease of 196,000. A decline in labor force participation cast a shadow on news that the December U.S....

As with any controversial topic, the question of corporate incomes taxes – whether to impose them or not - has two sides. In a January 5 OpEd in The New York Times, Boston University economics professor, Laurence Kotlikoff took the “dump them” side. According to Kotlikoff, eliminating or...

U.K. Inflation Soft GBP/USD fell to trade at its lowest levels since September 13 yesterday, after CPI data missed expectations. The U.K. Office of National Statistics showed that consumer price inflation slowed to the lowest level since September 2012 last month. U.K. year over year CPI came...

Gold futures fell to the lowest levels since October 16 in Monday's trading, after a stronger than expected non farm payrolls report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed robust growth in the number of new jobs created in the United States. The BLS reported on Friday that employers...

With the government shutdown underway Tuesday, one of the biggest market movers each month may not be moving any markets in the near future. The monthly jobless report is scheduled to be released Friday, but a memo from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the Office of the Solicitor suggests that...

Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric (NYSE: GE) and founder of the Jack Welch Management Institute, went on CNBC's Squawk Box Tuesday morning to seemingly give his opinion on everything in his scope. Welch started off by expressing that Edward Snowden, now famous for unveiling classified...

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 175 thousand in May, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 7.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in professional and business services, food services and drinking places, and retail trade....

The unemployment rate has dipped to a 4.5 year low of 7.5 percent, based on the April figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). However, the United States, like much of the world, has yet to fully recover from the Great Recession that traces its earliest ties to the summer of 2007...

In some good news for the economy, weekly jobless claims took a big drop. In the week ending April 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 324,000, a decrease of 18,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 342,000. These are the lowest number of claims since...

Non-Farm Payrolls were reported at 155,000 jobs added in December as job growth continued to improve at a lackluster rate. Economists had been expecting a gain of 150,000 jobs in the month, more than the 146,000 jobs added in November. Also, the unemployment rate was flat in December at 7.8 percent...