Archive for February 7th, 2010:
Employment info – Economy ‘gathering momentum’ – Windsor Star
Economy ‘gathering momentum’ – Windsor Star
The Canadian economy does indeed appear to be gathering momentum, despite some recent disappointments on the employment front,” said Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Capital Markets. “While much of the growth in November was concentrated
Stock futures mixed after unemployment report – Huffingtonpost.com
NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks are set to extend their slide Friday as markets overseas tumble 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.59 percent from 3.61 percent late Thursday. Gold prices fell. Oil dropped 3 cents to $73.11
Drop in jobless rate points to modest improvement – Jackson Sun
WASHINGTON – The job market is lurching toward improvement. It just has a long way to go. The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak Friday when the government released January’s unemployment rate showing an unexpected decline from 10 percent to 9
Florida unemployment expected to peak at record 12.3 percent – NW Florida Daily News
TALLAHASSEE — State economists now expect Florida’s unemployment rate to peak at 12.3 percent later this year — topping the modern record by nearly half a percentage point — and remain in double digits for another two years. They increased
Drop in Jobless Rate Shows Modest Improvement – The Ledger
But those gains resulted from hiring, including holiday-season jobs, according to Tom Nardone, an assistant commissioner at the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. President Barack Obama said the unexpected drop in the unemployment rate was
Jobless rate drops, but numbers don’t tell it all – The Keene Sentinel
WASHINGTON — The outlook for jobs remains bleak despite January’s unexpected decline in the unemployment rate, which fell to 9.7 percent from 10 percent in December. A Labor Department survey of households found that 541,000 more Americans had
U.S. Stocks Rebound on Greece Speculation, Consumer Credit – BusinessWeek
rebounding from the biggest losses since March, as investors speculated the European Union may come up with a solution for budget deficits in Greece and Spain and consumer credit dropped less than forecast. Cisco Systems Inc Standard & Poor
Stocks mixed after Labor Department says unemployment rate falls to 9 – Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks traded in a narrow range early Friday following mixed news from a monthly employment report. The Dow Jones industrial average hovered right around the 10,000 line. The Labor Department’s closely watched monthly jobs report
Unemployment Benefits May End for 100,000 in Wisconsin – Today’s TMJ4
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state has begun notifying more than 100,000 people that their unemployment benefits will run out at the end of April unless Congress intervenes. Department of Workforce Development spokesman John Dipko says the state started