Bank of America Global Research’s “Situation Room” note warned in mid-December that markets are priced for a robust 2026 even ...

Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States, celebrated on the first Monday of September each year. This holiday honors the contributions of American workers and the labor movement, ...

After going for a record number of days (over 6 weeks) without economic data from the Department of Labor and the Department of Commerce, we finally received a trickle. The Nov. 20 release was data ...

Employment in the U.S. private sector declined again in August, according to a report released Thursday by private payroll processing firm ADP, the latest signal of job market growth cooling as ...

An unsettled labor market is usually an indication of a troubled economy. In fact, a rapidly increasing unemployment rate characterizes the start of recessions. Therefore, a timely and accurate ...

ANALYSIS: Weakening labor data—from downward payroll revisions to new job openings falling to just 22,000 for August—has raised concerns the Fed may soon need to prioritize a cut to interest rates to ...

Recent signs of U.S. labor market softening tee up a third-straight Fed rate cut next week. We eye confirmation of this ongoing cooling in U.S. data this month. The S&P 500 rallied during a short ...

The November labor market report is likely to be very weak, showing significant job losses in both private and government sectors. Soft data and recent hard data indicate widespread layoffs, ...

State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper examines how oil shocks shape labor market outcomes across 89 countries from 1975 to 2022. Leveraging a ...