Nic Gustafson
Over the past few years the number of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) going public has exploded. A number of those have completed an acquisition and are now trading as that target company. Using SPACtrack.net, we took a look at …
With fossil fuels on their way out and renewable energy gaining an ever greater foothold, the energy sector is in transition. Recent events like the winter storms in Texas, and their impact on the state’s power grid, have brought conversations …
Nic Gustafson
February comes up short While NFP numbers exceeded expectations this month, LinkUp data for February finds the pandemic recovery unfolding at a much slower pace than previous months. This sluggishness is expected to continue, with large companies increasingly feeling the pandemic’s impact. …
Tom Ashenmacher
The United States recently hit a grim milestone, with more than 500,000 lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. As that number continues to climb, the federal government is stepping up its vaccination push, increasing the number of vaccines it distributes …
While we’ve had a solid track record over the years with our non-farm payroll forecasts, it’s not often that we’ve actually written in advance the Bloomberg Chyron for jobs Friday, so it’s hard to pass up on the opportunity to …
Nic Gustafson
In December 2020, we launched our BLS linear regression series of blog posts exploring how to use LinkUp data to calculate nonfarm payroll (NFP) predictions. In our last post predicting the BLS NFP, we used a simple seasonal adjustment to …
Nic Gustafson
Private companies go public for many reasons; to pay off debts, to provide exits for founders, to generate publicity or to fuel growth. Often companies on the verge of growth will increase their expenses, hiring employees to fuel that growth. …
Tom Ashenmacher
Upon going public last week, America’s No. 2 dating app gained 63% on the day to close at an $8+ billion valuation. The company is trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol “BMBL.” Bumble founder and CEO, Whitney …
Tom Ashenmacher
The January jump We start the year on a familiar trajectory with job listings increasing in the month of January, just as they did last year. (Here’s hoping this is where the similarities to 2020 end.) Nationwide, job listings are …
In a year viewed almost entirely through the lens of COVID-19, LinkUp’s jobs dataset was able to provide unique insights into the pandemic’s impact on the labor market. In our just released 2020 Jobs Report [COVID impact on labor demand] …
