US stocks fell on Thursday as Wall Street assessed an unexpected decline in jobless claims, complicating the calculus for interest rate cuts amid uncertainty about Federal…
Treasury yields were slightly higher early Friday after a mixed set of data on weekly jobless claims.The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury was 3 basis points…
Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent last month as more people looked for work in a weak job market, shifting expectations toward a jumbo…
Canada’s economy shed 2,800 jobs in July while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.4 per cent, Statistics Canada said on Friday.Employment fell in wholesale and…
Dow Jones futures extended their losses, while the other major indexes bounced modestly, as investors digested a sharp jump in weekly unemployment claims Thursday. An early…
About 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, a historically high number, even as the economy increasingly reopens and employers bring some…
The number of laid-off workers in the United States who applied for unemployment benefits declined slightly to 1.48 million last week, the twelfth straight drop and a…