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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 …

The battle of the music streaming services is heating up! Spotify announced last week that it is expanding its partnership with Hulu. Spotify premium users can now add a free Hulu subscription on top of their $9.99 a month music …

Gap Inc. announced this month that it plans to split into “two independently traded companies,” one being Old Navy, and another comprised of Gap and its other brands, including Banana Republic and Athleta. The reason for the split is the …

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 …

With the clock ticking to get our non-farm payroll (NFP) forecast published before tomorrow’s jobs report, I’m forced to keep the commentary brief. While perhaps fortunate for readers, it’s a bit frustrating given the crazy level of fear, uncertainty, and …