Citrix has had a tough year. Underperforming the past two quarters, Citrix shares have fallen 1.5% since January, while the S&P 500 as a whole has gained 19.9%. But what does the second half of 2019 hold for the tech company? Citrix …
Data blog
We’ll publish more data shortly, but given that we wait for the 1st of the month to populate our model with the prior month’s jobs data (combined with the fact that I’ve been traveling all day), we wanted to get …
Amazon “primed” for stock price drop?
Molly Moseley
In June we saw a decrease in total unique job listings across 58% of markets, which continued a downward trend we have seen over the past few months. Total U.S. job listings fell 1.3% overall in June, and new job …
Being on vacation this week around the 4th, I will be keeping commentary to a bare minimum for our June non-farm payroll forecast – an unfortunate disservice to the magnitude of our forecast given that we project a loss of …
Summertime slump brings the heat early
Molly Moseley
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 …
Cannabis Jobs, High On Success
Molly Moseley
Jobs in the cannabis industry have seen significant growth in the past year, and cannabis is now considered the fastest growing industry in the country. Just one year ago, we published the white paper Growing Like a Weed: The Impact …
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 …
The S&P 500 LinkUp Jobs Index
Molly Moseley
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 …
