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July jobs report: It’s a bad, terrible, not-so-good report. Here are the gory details.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the data will decide whether the central bank can cut rates in September. So all eyes are on the ...
Asian markets mostly gain after Wall St tumbles following poor US jobs report
Shares in Asia have mostly advanced after Wall Street had its worst day since May following the release of weak U.S. jobs ...
Weak Jobs Report Raises Chances of a September Interest Rate Cut
The Federal Reserve held rates steady in July but two governors dissented, saying they had concerns about labor market ...
The president fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday after the agency published a negative jobs report.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers had choice words for President Donald Trump after he fired his stats boss over an ...
Trump says the Bureau of Labor Statistics orchestrated a ‘scam.’ Here’s how the jobs report really works
President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...
Bad, terrible, not-so-good July jobs report. Here are the gory details.
It's hard to describe just how bad the July jobs report is. Start with the 73,000 increase in new jobs. It's weak enough as ...
How bad was the jobs report?
As recently as last Thursday, Unhedged argued that “Rate cuts would be a bad decision right now,” and we have long supported ...
Steve Moore warns job creation numbers are ‘increasingly unreliable’ amid weak July report
Former Trump economic advisor Steve Moore discusses the July jobs report and President Donald Trump’s efforts to make a new ...
Top Fed officials unswayed by poor July jobs report, take wait-and-see approach to rate cuts
Several senior Federal Reserve officials on Friday characterized the labor market as “solid” even after a poor July jobs ...