Data blog

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 …

There are many data points that help to tell the story of the coronavirus pandemic. This week, we were particularly interested in what LinkUp data tells us about how states job counts are changing amid the pandemic, and whether there …

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 …

We’ll be publishing a ton of graphs and charts next week in conjunction with our non-farm payroll forecast for April, but one of the charts we are looking at closely these days for any hint of a positive signal is …

The first quarter of 2020 brought the impacts of novel coronavirus into sharp focus. Examining labor demand across the entire economy from a macro, sector, occupation, and geographic level, we created a COVID-specific edition of our quarterly Economic Indicators Report. …