From the BLS: Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, 19 states registered rate decreases, and 8 states had no rate change, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over th ... Read more

Once again today's job numbers show Collectively, Economists Are A Perpetually Optimistic Lot . Payrolls were expected to drop 175,000, the median of 84 estimates in a Bloomberg News survey of economists. Forecasts ranged from decreases of 260,000 to 100,000. Jobs losses this month totaled 263,000, ... Read more

The Labor Department has released its latest data on weekly jobless claims.  The figure  came in at 627,000, a gain of 15,000.  We had a Dow Jones consensus looking for 605,000 and Bloomberg had 613,000 listed as the consensus estimates.  We also saw a revision here on the prior ... Read more

The DOL reports on weekly unemployment insurance claims : In the week ending Feb. 7, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 623,000, a decrease of 8,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 631,000. The 4-week moving average was 607,500, an increase of 24,000 from the ... Read more