Economy

  In May we saw an increase in total unique job listings across 64% of markets, down from an increase across 73% of markets in April. Overall total job openings rose just 1% for the month, with new jobs openings …

Occasionally over the years, it’s been the case that as I am working on our non-farm payroll forecast, I’ll hear a song that is extremely relevant to the current employment situation. It happened again this month when I recently heard …

Discretionary spending is up in 2019. However, while people might be buying plenty of things, it appears cars aren’t on their must-have-it-now list. Slow Q1 sales have been commonplace for major automotive retailers since 2016. (See below chart.) As sales …

S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), the world’s leading index provider, and LinkUp, the leading provider of global job market information to the financial industry, have collaborated to create the S&P 500® LinkUp Jobs Index. As the first index of …

We will post additional analysis periodically through the remainder of the day, but the headline is that we are forecasting a net gain of 235,000 jobs for tomorrow’s non-farm payroll (NFP) report for April.     Update below posted at …

Spring up It is a time of renewed growth—budding trees, blooming flowers, basketball madness, and elevated job openings. We are halfway between the holiday and summer slowdowns (much like October which tends to be another strong month for job growth). Employers are …

It’s been a long while since we were so delinquent in getting our non-farm payroll forecast published, and at the 11th hour there isn’t much time for commentary, so we’ll dispense with it and get straight to LinkUp’s job market …

Last week major drug executives sat in the hot seat on Capitol Hill for questioning on the exploding costs of prescription drug prices in the U.S. While their share prices weathered the initial storm, the unwanted spotlight is not going away. We decided …

As we wrote in last month’s post regarding our non-farm payroll forecast for January, we were unable to leverage month-end LinkUp data for January since the jobs report fell on February 1st (this is one of the many changes we …

While the longest government shutdown in history was estimated to cost the economy $3 billion, our January data shows it has had little to no impact on job openings. Government job openings were flat between December and January, and the Bureau of …