Hong Kong stocks led a surge in Asian markets as China’s stepped-up efforts to boost the economy. The Hang Seng Index climbed as much as 2.2pc to put it on track for a ninth consecutive day of gains, ...

The economy added 175,000 jobs last month, a slowdown in hiring. The unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9 percent.

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U.S. worker productivity growth slowed sharply in the first quarter, resulting in a surge in labor costs, but the trend in ...

U.S. nonfarm payrolls increased by 175,000 last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, or the smallest gain in six months. Economists were looking for the addition of about 240,000 jobs.

Key Victorian budget investments in health, education, transport and housing are guiding the state's rise to the challenge in the aftermath of the COVID-19.

The Employment Cost Index (ECI), the broadest measure of labor costs, increased 1.2% last ... closer to the Fed's 2% target. Though job growth accelerated in the first quarter, surveys including ...

The next stage of the policy cycle is a weakening of the labor market. Once it starts gradually weakening, it then weakens ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. worker productivity growth slowed sharply in the first quarter, resulting in a surge in labor costs, but the trend in productivity remained solid. Nonfarm productivity ...

The U.S. private sector added jobs in April at a slightly slower pace, as pay growth cooled ... million U.S. workers and is independent from Labor Department official data. Pay data is based ...

Wall Street's main indexes were set to open higher on Friday after a softer-than-expected jobs report revived hopes of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates this year, while gains in Apple and ...