unemployment rate

Employment Report: 190K Jobs Lost, 10.2% Unemployment Rate

Calculated Risk — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:25:00 -0500

From the BLS : The unemployment rate rose from 9.8 to 10.2 percent in October, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to decline (-190,000), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. read more »

Depression Era Unemployment Rate

Calculated Risk — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:31:00 -0400

Just for information purposes, the following graph is from Northern Trust .What was the high of the unemployment rate in the Great Depression? read more »

A Second Stimulus Plan?

Calculated Risk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:34:00 -0400

From ABC's This Week , George Stephanopoulos interviews Vice President Joe Biden: STEPHANOPOULOS: While we've been here, some pretty grim job numbers back at home -- 9.5 percent unemployment in June read more »

Unemployment: Stress Test Scenarios, Diffusion Index, Weekly Claims

Calculated Risk — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:25:00 -0400

Note: earlier Employment post: Employment Report: 467K Jobs Lost, 9.5% Unemployment Rate . The earlier post includes a comparison to previous recessions. read more »

Non-Farm Payrolls Trump Unemployment for Market Blast Off

247Wallst — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:35:14 -0400

We have gotten the unemployment and jobs data for the month of May from the Labor Department, and the data is very mixed on unofficial numbers. The report came in at 9.4% unemployment and the ch read more »

Now Almost 6 Million In Continuing Jobless Claims

247Wallst — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:50:21 -0400

The weekly jobless claims is still a dismal reading. Thankfully, it was just a tad less dismal than before. read more »

Close Look at the Accelerating Rate of Unemployment

mish — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:01:05 -0400

The trend in unemployment is unmistakably up and accelerating. Let's start with a discussion of widely followed data followed by many additional charts that you may not have seen before. read more »

US Shows Highest Unemployment Figures Since 1983

ForexTVBlog — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:55:54 -0400

Last week’s release of negative employment data from the United States has many forex traders running from the USD. read more »

Unemployment Now Over 8%

The Entrepreneurial Mind — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:31:47 -0500

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released a report today on employment and unemployment for February (pdf summary available at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm ). read more »

January Employment Report: 598,000 Thousand Jobs Lost, Unemployment Rate 7.6%

Calculated Risk — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:30:00 -0500

From the BLS : Nonfarm payroll employment fell sharply in January (-598,000) and the unemployment rate rose from 7.2 to 7.6 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. read more »