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US jobless claims rise, Fed may consider rate cuts. Challenges in labor market but overall outlook positive.

The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.51%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.27%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.92%. Stock indexes today are lower despite the US weekly continuing unemployment claims rising to...

Jobless figures encouraging but concern at 11.8 million graduates entering the job market this year

Everyone agrees that solving the unemployment problem in South Africa is the number one priority for economic policy for the new government, as it has been for all governments since 1994. What is less clear, and highly contested, is what should be done to solve this problem.

By D’Angelo Gore, Robert Farley, Lori Robertson, Eugene Kiely and Ian Fox On a night when the focus was on safety and unity at the Republican convention, a number of GOP leaders also offered up some misleading and false claims FactCheck has seen before. Several speakers also blamed Biden for…

While interest rates may have peaked, the labour market is fragile and the economy is set to slow even further

Comparison of record low unemployment rates for demographic groups under Trump and Biden administrations.

South Africa’s economy is strained, unemployment and crime are extremely high, policing is ineffective and the public service is dysfunctional. Francois Venter was involved in drafting the country’s transitional 1993 and final 1996 constitutions. Since then, he has researched comparative constitutional law and theory. He believes the outcome of the…

Recent Labor Department data shows decline in jobless claims and individuals receiving unemployment benefits, indicating stability in the US labor market.