jobs

A look at what traders hope to see in Friday's jobs report and its impact on the U.S. dollar, with Michael Gurka, Spectrum Asset Management. more...

The euro found a steadier footing in Asia on Friday, having suffered a drubbing overnight on weak euro zone data, as market attention turned to a closely watched U.S. employment report. more...

The outlook for the nonfarm payroll report due Friday isn't what it once was. Here's what it might mean for the Fed, and the dollar. more...

New jobs data will be reported Friday, and investors are guardedly optimistic. Here's how to trade the glass-half-full mood. more...

Karen Mills, Small Business Administration, explains what the Obama administration is doing to generate new jobs. more...

Insight and predictions on July's employment numbers, with Lou Brien, DRW Trading Group; Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics; Diane Swonk, Mesirow Financial, and Mark Olson, Treliant Risk Advisors. more...

Second-quarter earnings season kicks off next week and the market will be looking for signs from corporate America about the state of the economy. Plus the Fed, debt talks, consumer sentiment and more. more...

"In addition to the shock value...we need to seriously question whether a double dip is there. I would say it's back on the table," says one strategist. more...

The euro kept a tentative grip on overnight gains in Asia on Friday cheered by the European Central Bank's pledge to provide Portuguese banks with liquidity, but trading is likely to be subdued ahead of the highly anticipated U.S. jobs report. more...

Volumes of business across the UK financial services sector slowed in the three months to June* but jobs jumped, a survey published by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) revealed on Monday. more...

The new reality of the economy is that we are actually adding more jobs per month and May's numbers shouldn't weigh too heavily on optimism, according to John Silvia, Wells Fargo, but Jack De Gan, Harbor Advisor, disagrees. Insight with Jared Bernstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities...

The U.S. dollar slid to a fresh one-month low against a basket of major currencies early in Asia on Monday, finding no support after disappointing jobs data bolstered expectations that U.S. interest rates will stay low for longer. more...

Safe-haven currencies are on a roll. Yes, it's the economy, stupid — time for your FX Fix. more...

The euro hit a one-month high against the dollar on Friday, with investors fretting whether forthcoming U.S. jobs data will give them more reason to brace for a protracted soft patch in the U.S. economy's recovery and a further dollar slide. more...

The high unemployment rate means the Fed's ultra-easy money policies remain the right course of action, top Federal Reserve officials said on Wednesday. more...

Spain's electoral oversight body ruled that jobs protests which young people are staging across the country would be illegal over the coming election weekend, but some demonstrators said they would defy the ban. more...