Traders revised their rate cut bets for January after the latest labor report came in roughly in line, while the unemployment rate dipped to 4.4%. After the latest job report, the chances of a 25 ...

The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is explained by an even stepdown of labor supply and demand, meaning slowing ...

The Fed has cut interest rates in an effort to revive an ailing labor market. Hiring ticked down in December, defying the Federal Reserve's effort to boost hiring with a recent series of interest rate ...

Follow MarketWatch's live coverage of the U.S. jobs report for December, as investors look for a clearer picture of the challenging 2025 labor market. Jan. 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM EST ...

Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 50,000 in December, lower than the downwardly revised 56,000 in November and short of the Dow Jones estimate for 73,000. The unemployment rate fell to 4.4%, ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - U.S. employment growth slowed more than expected in December amid job losses in the construction, retail and manufacturing sectors, but a decline in the unemployment rate ...

In 2022, I attempted to answer this question by building a retirement simulator based on Indian market data to calculate the safe withdrawal rate (SWR). In subsequent research, I extended these ...

The Fed angle: Odds of a rate cut in January fell to nearly 0% after the data release.

The US economy added 50,000 jobs in December, according to Labor Department data published Friday, culminating in the worst year for annual job growth outside of a recession since 2003. Years marked ...

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• The US economy added just 50,000 jobs in December, according to the latest monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. • The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.4% from a revised 4.5%. • The ...