U.S. employers likely added 153,000 jobs in December, close to the average of the last six months, while the unemployment ...

The economy created 256,000 jobs in December, much stronger than what was predicted by Wall Street experts and more than 40,000 from the previous month, the Labor Department in its report released on ...

Employers added 256,000 jobs in December despite uncertainty over President-elect Donald Trump's policies. Unemployment ...

The December jobs report showed a surprise surge in hiring and an unexpected drop in the unemployment rate. Taken together, the data strengthen the case for the Federal Reserve to maintain its ...

After the "gangbuster" December jobs report, the Federal Reserve's rate-cutting cycle is over, said Aditya Bhave, senior U.S. economist at BofA Global Research. "Our base case has the Fed on an ...

Friday is the first major economic report of the new year. The U.S. added an estimated 256,000 jobs in December, smashing consensus economist estimates of a seasonally adjusted 153,000 ...

In 2024, job growth continued to cool off, settling back into a familiar gait that was roughly in line with the pace of job creation in 2010-2019.

“Mortgage rates ticked up for the fifth consecutive week and crossed 7% for the first time since May of 2024,” says Sam ...

Immigrants help the economy, and massive sweeps to get rid of them destroy it. Free trade helps the economy, and tariffs ...

There is some positive news in Minnesota's economic development as in the latest state labor report, employers added 4100 jobs in December.

Here’s a rundown of what the jobs report shows: The unemployment rate in the state was 3.7% in December. That’s unchanged from November, when the unemployment rate ticked up from 3.6% in October.

Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted preliminary December 2024 unemployment rate was 5.2%, according to the Kentucky Center for ...