The numbers: The U.S. created a steady 431,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate took another step toward a half-century low, as companies pushed to add staff and more people entered the labor force in search of work. The …
U.S. stock futures pushed higher on the first day of second quarter on Friday, as investors waited for important jobs data and monitored developments surrounding the ongoing war in Ukraine. How are stock-index futures trading? On Thursday, the Dow DJIA …
The numbers: Private payrolls rose by 455,000 in March, according to the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast a gain of 450,000 private sector jobs in March. The ADP report is …
Welcome to Is This Working?, a column about the future of work through the lens of gender. That’s a question many workers, particularly women, are asking two years into a pandemic that has strained many systems to their breaking point, …
The February jobs report showed the economy adding more jobs than expected — and also more people physically at work after the omicron variant’s disruptions. With spring just around the corner and the variant in the rearview mirror, this could …
Bitcoin was in rally mode on Friday, ascending to a two-week high above $40,000. More specifically, the cryptocurrency BTCUSD, +9.01% was trading at around $40,245 on Friday with a nearly 10% gain over the past 24 hours, according to CoinDesk …
Wall Street was poised for a mixed start on Friday ahead of key employment data, with tech futures in particularly climbing after well-received results from Amazon.com Inc., Snap Inc. and Pinterest Inc. That higher start comes a day after weak …