Online Job Demand Drops 70,200 in November, The Conference Board Reports (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Online advertised vacancies declined 70,200 to 4,369,200 in November, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series released today. The November loss brought the decline this fall to 264,000. |
November Job Losses Could Be Worst in 28 Years (BusinessWeek) |
Monthly job loss tally could be worst in 28 years (KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches) The U.S. economy is bleeding jobs faster than it has since the early 1980s, and perhaps since the mid-'70s. |
Recession in U.S. May Be Just Beginning as Job Losses Mount (Bloomberg) Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy, now officially in recession, may be in the midst of the longest slump in the post- World War II era as job losses mount and credit dries up. |
2nd UPDATE: French Unemployment Ends Downward Cycle In 3Q (The Forex Market) PARIS (Dow Jones)--The French unemployment rate rose slightly in the third quarter, ending its downward cycle as the economic slowdown starts to take its toll, French national statistics office Insee showed Thursday. |
UPDATE 1-French unemployment edges up to 7.7 pct in Q3 (The Forex Market) PARIS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - France's unemployment rate rose slightly in the third quarter, according to official data on Thursday, as companies cut jobs in response to the financial crisis and a slowing economy. |
More Minority Students Earn Degrees From University of Phoenix Than From Any Other University in the Nation (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) University of Phoenix today announced that more minority students earn degrees from University of Phoenix than from any other university in the nation, according to recently released data aggregated from Diverse Issues in Higher Education. |
St. Louis jobless rate hits 6.9% (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) The region's job market continued its slump in October. According to new figures released Tuesday, more than 98,000 St. Louisans were looking for work that month and couldn't find it. |
The Minority Report (AdWeek) Black athletes, musicians and actors figure more prominently in ad campaigns than ever, but the chances that African Americans actually created those ads are pretty slim. |
Short The Cruise Lines, Buy The Cruises (Forbes) Deep package discounts of as much as 85% signal trouble ahead for cruise line stocks. Make money on the downside. |