Payrolls shrink, first drop in 4-1/2 years
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U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 17,000 non-farm jobs in January, the first time in nearly 4-1/2 years that U.S. payrolls shrank as fading construction and manufacturing sectors reflected the economy's waning momentum.
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The ranks of Americans filing initial claims for jobless pay shrank by more than expected last week to 323,000, government data showed on Wednesday, while continued claims fell to a 3-1/2 year low in more good news for the U.S. labor market.
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Weekly wages for rank-and-file workers fell because companies reduced the average length of the workweek.
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US firms cut back on the total number of staff employed for the first time in four years, official data shows.
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Employers cut jobs for the first time in four years last month, the government reported yesterday, driving stock prices down in the United States and Europe and raising fears the slowdown in the housing and credit markets brought on by the crisis in subprime mortgages is spreading across the economy.
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Employers&#39; payrolls grew by just 96,000 in September in a weaker-than-expected government report Friday that provided a final snapshot before Election Day of a lackluster jobs market.
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The number of Americans filing  initial claims for jobless pay fell by much more than expected  last week to 317,000 in the steepest decline in three years,  Labor Department data showed on Thursday.
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The number of U.S. workers seeking  first-time jobless claims plunged last week, as expected, after  surging the prior week during the start of the holiday season,  a government report showed on Thursday.
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Stocks slid on Friday, driving each of the major indexes more than 1 percent lower, as the government reported the first monthly drop in payrolls in four years, stoking market concerns about a recession.
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The number of U.S. workers claiming  first-time jobless benefits fell 10,000 to a seasonally  adjusted 328,000 last week, slightly lower than Wall Street  expectations, a government report showed.
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U.S. stocks were set to open lower on  Friday, after August payroll data came in slightly below  expectations.
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Payroll growth was the weakest in two years in February but a lower unemployment rate and a revision higher for January job growth hinted at surprising resilience in the nation's labor market.
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In a shower of pink slips, U.S. employers cut jobs last month for the first time in more than four years, the starkest signal yet that the economy is grinding to a halt if it hasn't already toppled into recession.
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The ranks of Americans filing initial claims for jobless pay shrank by more than expected last week to 323,000, government data showed on Wednesday, while continued claims fell to a 3-1/2 year low in more good news for the US labor
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The Massachusetts jobless rate last month plunged to its lowest level in more than two years, the sharpest monthly drop since 1981, the state reported yesterday.
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The number of U.S. workers claiming first-time jobless benefits fell 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 328,000 last week, slightly lower than Wall Street expectations, a government report showed.
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Pending sales of existing homes plunged by a record 12.2 percent in July, and private employers hired the fewest workers in more than four years in August, according to reports released on Wednesday that point to a weakening economy.