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Recently, Consumer Discretionary (CD) has been an interesting sector to analyze. Due to its non-essential nature, COVID’s impact on the sector cannot be denied. However, as it looks like we are turning a corner on the pandemic, CD seems to …

Continuing the climb May was yet another month of steady growth, with active job listings rising another 4.06%. This is similar to the previous month’s 4.23% overall US growth rate. At the state level, 98% of states saw job listings …

It’s not surprising in the least given how utterly unprecedented everything has been of late, but at no point in the past 20 years has focus on the labor market been so intense. And because we are in such uncharted …

Crypto has been dominating headlines lately, from Dogecoin to Bitcoin the digital asset has become THE hot topic for news and media outlets. It’s not just media outlets that have latched on to the crypto craze, large institutions are also …

Still on the upswing We’ve got a spring in our step after yet another month of growth. Following the 11% increase in active job listings we saw in March, and our return to pre-pandemic job levels, April’s active job listings …

When little else is certain, there is always coffee. The beverage remains the undisputed favorite in the U.S., with Americans consuming 400 million cups per day. But believe it or not, fewer people drank coffee in the United States during …

While it’s extraordinarily positive and extremely encouraging to be so firmly entrenched in economic recovery mode, there’s a strange sense of deja-vu that we’ve returned to a very similar place circa 2011/2012 with everyone trying to read tea-leaves and goat …

As we continue to watch the labor market’s impressive upward climb in the wake of last year’s COVID cliff, LinkUp’s job listing data provides a unique view into the state of the US economy. In the most recent edition of …

Materials for the early new mRNA vaccines are becoming harder to get, and they are hard to manufacture and store. But there’s another vaccine on the horizon that could solve some of those problems, and keep vaccination efforts moving. A …

Job demand is backMarch brought a major milestone in the pandemic recovery with job listings in the U.S. returning to pre-covid levels. (We’ll pause here for a collective ‘woo hoo!’) We were hopeful going into March, when we noticed job …