The January employment report brought something that hasn’t exactly been in short supply lately: a bit of confusion. The economy turned in another month of solid job growth, as most expected.

Employment declined in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industries. The Labor Bureau released the monthly report on Friday morning. Consumer Inflation Expectations Surge In New ...

Economists were projecting the unemployment rate would stay at 4.1% and 170,000 jobs would be added, according to FactSet estimates. Friday’s report — which also featured some significant data ...

Friday's job numbers may not be what you expect. The report is likely to show slower job growth from last year due to a regular update to the government's data — likely among the biggest payroll ...

Bond yields shot up on Friday as markets took in the January jobs report. While the nonfarm payroll report showed employers added fewer jobs than expected last month, traders dialed up bets that ...

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Economists had been expecting an overall healthy reading, with 169,000 net new jobs created in the month and the unemployment rate holding steady at 4.1%. The January report, which effectively ...

But he added that a strong jobs report shouldn't keep the Fed from resuming rate cuts as long as its preferred inflation measure, now just under 3%, continues to drop. "I think inflation looks to ...

By Ben Casselman The Labor Department’s latest monthly report on hiring and unemployment will include revisions for previous months that should give a more accurate picture of the U.S. job ...

After a solid January jobs report, more traders are betting that the Fed’s rate-cut pause might last longer than expected. When the Federal Reserve reached for a half-point interest-rate cut in ...

The Labor Department has released its first jobs report of the year, covering January 2025. It shows that payrolls grew by 143,000 — somewhat lower than economists’ expectations of 175,000.

The first jobs report since President Donald Trump’s inauguration came out Friday morning, falling short of headline expectations in the weakest start to a year for overall job growth since ...