July’s consumer-price index (CPI) showed inflation rising, overall, at a relatively steady pace. But in the devil’s in the details, as they say, and the...
Healthcare, social assistance, financial activities and wholesale trade led the country’s job gains in July. A total of 187,000 nonfarm payroll jobs were added during...
Unemployment dropped in 11 states in June compared to the previous month, while remaining stable in the other 39 states and the District of Columbia....
The latest readings on inflation, released Wednesday (June 14), signal some margin relief for Main Street small businesses. And, by extension, consumers may see some...
Wall Street is parsing the latest inflation data, gaming the odds of another Fed rate hike — or pause. And while the headline data show...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published a little-noticed piece last month analyzing the part auto dealers’ markups played in new car price tag inflation during...
U.S. unemployment claims climbed last week — as did the cost of labor — as productivity fell. That’s according to government data released Thursday (May...
New government research shows that markups on new vehicles helped drive the inflation plaguing consumers. A recent study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Job growth continued but slowed as the U.S. added 311,000 jobs in February. That gain was lower than the revised 504,000 added jobs reported for...