Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Initial Jobless Claims is a report issued by the U.S. Department of Labor on a weekly basis. The employment situation is extremely important for a macroeconomic analysis, so the financial markets track employment indicators, although this is a low impact indicator compared with the monthly BLS's "Employment Report".
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FBN's Adam Shapiro breaks down late-morning market news.
FBN’s Stuart Varney breaks down the stories moving the markets early in the trading day.
Oil futures rose with the market open Thursday, recovering slightly from a decline the day before and at least temporarily arresting a slide that has knocked more th...
A report on leading economic indicators for April is due for release at 10 a.m. from the Conference Board, a private research group. Economists polled by MarketWatch...
New claims for unemployment benefits were unchanged last week, according to government data on Thursday that will do little to ease concerns about a recent slowdown ...
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Treasury prices edged up and the dollar extended gains slightly on Thursday after data showed 370,000 Americans filed first-time jobless claims in the latest week. T...
The number of Americans who filed requests for jobless benefits was unchanged last week at 370,000, the U.S. Labor Department said Thursday. Claims from two weeks ag...
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The Labor Department will issue weekly jobless claims at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch forecast that new applications for unemployment benefi...
Anthony Valeri of LPL Financial gives his outlook for inflation.
A $2 billion blunder by the London derivates desk at JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) has put egg on the face of well-regarded CEO Jamie Dimon, who heads the largest and, a...
FBN's Cheryl Casone breaks down mid-afternoon market news.
FBN’s Stuart Varney breaks down the stories moving the markets early in the trading day.
The dollar added to gains slightly and Treasury prices stayed down on Thursday after a report showed 370,000 U.S. first-time jobless claims in the latest week. A sep...
New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week, government data on Thursday showed, suggesting the labor market continues to expand at a moderate ...
The U.S. government will issue reports on weekly jobless claims and monthly durable-good orders at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch expect claim...
FOX Business: The Power to ProsperEconomically-sensitive stocks were pounded on Thursday as worries mounted about the sputtering U.S. economic recovery and the deepe...
FOX Business: The Power to ProsperEconomically-sensitive sectors sustained heavy selling pressure Thursday as worries mounted about the slowing U.S. economic recover...
