Job Market Data

I have no intention of completely abandoning (yet) my self-imposed rule of generally steering clear of politics post-November 2016, but as we move into the New Year, and an election year at that, I expect it will become increasingly difficult …

2019 will be remembered as a year of political conflict and the third presidential impeachment in U.S. history, but it will also be remembered as record year for corporate strife. More than 1,300 CEOs stepped down in 2019, the highest total CEO churn …

Inside Pier 1 stores this holiday season employees are busy helping shoppers finish up their shopping lists. Back at Pier 1 headquarters finance staff are getting ready for their quarterly earnings call, scheduled for this Wednesday, December 18th. In anticipation …

November’s job listings data was particularly negative as all states and sectors saw declines, but none more severe than the Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction sector. Employment in the sector has steadily been on the decline, despite President Trump promising to …

As has been the case for much of the recent past, the U.S. economy is a tale of two cities these days with strong consumers continuing to buoy the economy despite some distressing signs from pretty much everything that isn’t …

The streaming war has been hot, but it just got hotter as Disney launched its own streaming service last week (though not without a few hiccups). there has been much speculation as to how this will impact Netflix‘s already slowing subscription …

There are a lot of questions swirling around the U.S. economy these days, but two of the most central are whether the slowdown in hiring is due to weakening demand or shrinking supply and secondly, how long the U.S. consumer …

  Because Jobs Friday fell on November 1st, we didn’t have much time yesterday morning to thoroughly process our job market data for October before the Labor Department released its Employment Situation Report for the month. We did, however, have …

Our paired-month jobs data for October finished processing and was delivered early this morning, just in time to allow for a very quick analysis. We’ll be processing and evaluating all of our monthly jobs data this morning and we will …

When comparing the success of healthcare companies, a very important distinction is whether the company is publicly or privately held. We tend to hear that private healthcare companies are able to move faster and innovate earlier but are more volatile, …