Laid Off
Mike: I hope your weekend was a good one and welcome to The Layoff List. Monday brought us the following job related economic reports: Housing Market Index, which showed further weakness with an “unexpected” decline of 15 from May’s 16, and Empire State Mfg Survey, which came in at -9.41 and that was a worse reading than the […]
Mike: I hope you are all having a good weekend. I fixed the rss feed problem, so all should be back to normal. I had added a plugin that made the rss crash, whhich has since been removed. Today we had Consumer Sentiment come in at an improved 69 from May’s 68.7 (U.S. Michigan Consumer […]
Mike: As with most Thursdays, the weekly jobless claims number is the big news. Today saw a reduction of claims to 601,000, which is still a very high number, but an improvement from the previous week. The markets seem excited by unemployment remaining above 600,000, but then all news is good news of late. The […]