Economy

As we’ve highlighted over the past few months, we’re closely tracking new job openings across the U.S. as one of the key, real-time indicators of what’s happening not just in the labor market but the economy as a whole at …

With a shortened holiday week, combined with an early, Thursday Employment Situation release, I will keep this month’s NFP forecast commentary short and get straight to our data. As we’ve been saying for the past two months, labor demand continued …

It’s been a sobering week, to say the least, on a number of fronts. At the same time that daily COVID cases reached record levels nationally, driven mostly by states that opened up aggressively and disregarded health protocols, unemployment claims …

There has been a lot of recent news about large banks; the possibility of cutting dividends and generally not having the best looking balance sheets. As we near the end of June and the Federal Reserve’s annual stress tests on …

Who needs cardio? Watching the trajectory of fitness companies since the advent of coronavirus is enough to get anyone’s heart rate up, no treadmill required.  Unsurprisingly, the pandemic has been tough for the fitness business to navigate. On Monday, California-based …

It’s a powerful indication of the insanity plaguing the headlines these days that a global pandemic that has, so far, claimed over 100,000 lives in the U.S., put at least 40 million people out of work, driven unemployment to depression-era …

May brought the final chapter in a long saga for beleaguered home goods retailer, Pier 1. The Fort Worth-based company confirmed that it will go out of business, shuttering their 540 stores and closing their ecommerce website.  Signals of Pier …

As we wrote last week, we’ve seen a relatively sharp increase in new job openings across most of the country since the end of April. Through May 17th, new job listings on company and employer websites throughout the country had …

As states begin relaxing lockdown restrictions and opening up their economies, we are analyzing our job market data closely for indications of how quickly the labor market might recover at a local and national level. We’ll be posting more detailed …

In the mad dash to get our NFP forecast and the related job market data out as quickly as possible in advance of tomorrow’s jobs report, I will keep the broader commentary to a minimum (as in none) and just …