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- Whose Recovery Is This?
- Like most recoveries, this has been an uneven one. Wall Street, women, and older workers are thriving, while Main Street, men, and younger workers are simply surviving. Our scorecard shows some of the recovery?s biggest winners and losers so far. Here’s another option: Just ask...
- Articles 2009-11-05
- Employment: Less Bad is Good
- The April employment report showed that the rate of job loss is tapering off. That's why investors celebrated the fact that "only" over a half million people lost their jobs in April and the unemployment rate was just 8.9 percent. It's like the doctor coming in and...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- The Coming Jobless Recovery
- Now we are getting the clearest indication yet that we are headed for a jobless recovery. A total of 467,000 jobs were eliminated in June, bringing the jobless rate to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent in May, according to the Labor Department. The jobless rate was the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- More Jobs Mean Higher Rates, Say Experts
- A strong rise in employment in October will give the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA added confidence to lift interest rates in December, economists say.It will be the first time the RBA will have raised rates for the third consecutive month, if it does so.A larger than expected jump...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Australian Unemployment Rate 5.8% in Oct
- A strong rise in total employment in October will give the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA confidence to lift interest rates for a third straight month in December, economists say.The nation added 24,500 jobs in October, according to figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics published on Thursday.The median...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Unemployment Rate Cushioned By Government Hiring
- In July in some of the first good news the U.S. economy had seen in several months the unemployment rate actually declined slightly. It was down to 9.4 percent from about 9.6 percent. Many economists still predict it going higher as economic activity in the U.S. stagnates or...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Cautious Optimism as Job Losses Slow
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of job losses slowed in many U.S. states in October, and the unemployment rate slipped in hard-hit Michigan, the Labor Department said on Friday, hinting the recession may be easing in some areas.Michigan's jobless rate fell to 15.1 percent in October from 15.3 percent in...
- News items 2009-11-20
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- Unemployment rate drops for managers, professionals - Strategic Intelligence - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
- The unemployment rate for managers and professionals appears to be decreasing, despite recent statistics indicating that overall unemployment is flat at best. That's good news for HR managers, according to the executive search firm Management Recruiters International MRI The U.S. Department of Labor reported that the jobless rate for...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- The New Job Market: Who Wins and Who Loses?
- Recession, government spending, and demographics are transforming the workforce right before your eyes. To protect your career, make sure you're on the right side of history. If history is any guide, unemployment will continue to rise after the recession bottoms out, according to Steve Hipple, an economist with the...
- Articles 2009-06-24
- Winners and Losers in the New Job Market
- The fall of Lehman and the broader financial crisis have transformed the job market. Among the consequences: Women are now better off than men and part-time is the new full-time. Here's how you can succeed in the new economic order. But it’s not the sheer numbers of jobs shed...
- Articles 2009-09-15
- Need to know: UBS account closures ... BMW decline ... BP peace deal
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics UK manufacturing: British industry suffered a bleak November, with output from factories plummeting by 2.9 per cent in the month to stand 7.4 per cent down on a year earlier, its sharpest annual fall since 1981. Output is back to levels...
- News items 2009-08-07
- SVP of UPS Keynotes the 2005 HR Summit
- BARBADOS, West Indies -- In the not so distant past, HR executives were faced with the challenge of maintaining a motivated workforce at a time when the national unemployment rate was never higher. Today, executives face new woes. Outsourcing and containing HR cost, leadership development, workforce management and diversity programs...
- Research articles 2004-12-07
- Dominion Resources, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from Angie Storozynski with Macquarie Capital. Ma'am, please go ahead. Angie Storozynski - Macquarie Capital Thank you, good morning. Very impressive earnings, I just have one question, and I understand that Virginia is in a way shielded from the current recession,...
- Earnings calls 2009-01-29
- Need to know: Young's profits rise ... Unite rental growth ... Sears loss ....
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Public finances: Official figures showed that public sector net borrowing jumped to £11.4 billion, a record high for October. Net debt reached £829.7 billion — £134.6 billion higher than a year ago and equivalent to more than 59 per cent of...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Expanding Overseas:The Best Small Markets
- Thanks to job growth and newfound political stability, these smaller markets present a big opportunity for U.S. and other western companies to expand. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} ...
- Articles 2008-04-21
- If I Were Chancellor...
- For all its vaunted support of the SME sector, can the government help them now, when access to funding and supply chain pressures are constricting their ability to grow? According to the Chartered Management Institute's latest Economic Outlook Survey, 85 per cent of managers think the government...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- AOL Shows Worst Not Over For Media Job Cuts
- By Sue ZeidlerLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If AOL's announcement on Thursday of another 2,500 job cuts is anything to go by, the painful layoffs that have ravaged the media industry over the past year are nowhere near over.Even though U.S. media conglomerates have largely reported stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings and their...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Need to know: Havas bond ... BAA loss ... SAP sales weak ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics House prices: Figures from the Land Registry showed that house prices in England and Wales rose by 0.9 per cent in September, with the average price of a property now 5.6 per cent lower than in September last year. German inflation:...
- News items 2009-10-28
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