The U.S. economy added fewer jobs in January than economists had forecast, although the jobless rate edged lower.

The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq were set to open little changed on Friday as the stock market awaits the January jobs report.

“Today’s data sends a moderately bullish signal about the strength of the labor market,” says Preston Caldwell, senior US ...

Trump, via the Elon Musk-spearheaded Department of Government Efficiency, is in the process of gutting some federal agencies.

The U.S. labor market probably started 2025 the way it spent most of last year: generating decent, but unspectacular, job ...

Economists are betting that 2025 kicked off with cooler levels of job growth. But overall stable labor conditions should keep ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered representative of layoffs. The four-week average, which evens out ...

Big earnings such as Robinhood, Shopify and AppLovin, along with inflation reports, are potential market headwinds.

Photo: Catherine McQueen () Job creation was weaker than expected for the first month of 2025, even as unemployment edged ...

January's jobs report was a mixed bag of data that will probably lead the Federal Reserve to continue holding off on any more ...