Finance
Jobs Gains Surge, Troubling News for the Federal Reserve.
Federal Reserve officials are likely to cast a wary eye on September jobs data, which showed that employers both hired...
Why the Jobs Report Might be Pivotal for a Jittery Stock Market
Stocks are sliding, government bond yields are soaring and investors are reacting strongly to incremental economic information, parsing it for...
Rates Are Jumping on Wall Street. What Will It Do to Housing and the Economy?
Heather Mahmood-Corley, a real estate agent, was seeing decent demand for houses in the Phoenix area just a few weeks...
How strikes are (and aren’t) reflected in the jobs report.
Three of the country’s major automakers are facing an expanding strike that started on Sept. 15. Hollywood producers and screenwriters...
Women Could Fill Truck Driver Jobs. Companies Won’t Let Them.
The trucking industry has complained for years that there is a dire shortage of workers willing to drive big rigs....
Higher Rates Stoke a Growing Chorus of Deficit Concerns
The U.S. government’s persistent budget deficit and growing debts were low on Wall Street’s list of worries when interest rates...
New U.A.W. Chief Has a Nonnegotiable Demand: Eat the Rich
For as long as anyone can remember, the Indiana city of Kokomo has been a conservative stronghold. Ronald Reagan crushed...
JOLTS Report Shows Job Openings Up, Shaking Markets
Why It Matters: The economy nears prepandemic measures.Job openings are closely monitored by the Federal Reserve, which has tried to...
A Rural Michigan Town Is the Latest Battleground in the U.S.-China Fight
Yard signs along the quiet country roads of Green Charter Township, Mich., home to horse farms and a 19th-century fish...
U.A.W. Will Expand Strikes at Ford and G.M.
The United Automobile Workers union increased the pressure on Ford Motor and General Motors by extending its strike to two...
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