We review the “production approach” to estimating markups—the ratio of price to marginal cost. Paired with increasingly rich ...

The office of the Labor Department’s inspector general said Wednesday it was initiating a review of challenges the Bureau of Labor Statistics faces in collecting and reporting US economic data ...

The Labor Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday announced an audit into the challenges faced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in collecting data for its inflation and labor market reports ...

Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch. Before joining the business and finance vertical, she worked at "60 Minutes," CBSNews.com and CBS News 24/7 as part of the CBS News Associate Program.

US-based private investment firm Bain Capital has agreed to sell its data centre portfolio company WinTriX DC Group’s Chinese business in a transaction valued at $4bn. According to Bain Capital, the ...

1401 ET – The dollar shrugs off a labor-data driven decrease in Treasury yields, an unusual behavior for the greenback, which tends to fall on signs of U.S. economic weakness. The WSJ Dollar Index is ...

Employers added only 22,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.3 percent. Revised data also showed that employment fell by 13,000 jobs in June, the first net loss since ...

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 ...

US companies announced nearly 86,000 job cuts in August 2025, a 39% increase from July, marking the highest August layoffs since 2020. Pharmaceuticals and finance sectors experienced the largest cuts ...

Markets are preparing for pivotal U.S. labor market data, with jobless claims due Thursday and the non-farm payrolls report scheduled for Friday. Analysts say the figures will provide critical input ...

The Department of Labor's internal watchdog is launching a review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) approach to collecting and reporting economic data. Laura Nicolosi, assistant inspector ...

On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published a revision of its latest job numbers, a report that shows just how far off its estimates of overall employment were from reality. The latest ...