Payroll boom: The economy added 255000 jobs in July - USA TODAY
USA TODAY | Payroll boom: The economy added 255000 jobs in July |
USA TODAY | Payroll boom: The economy added 255000 jobs in July |
It’s the big day, featuring national pride and media hype. Jobs day, of course. Regardless of how the jobs report looks, today’s call warns against buying small-cap stocks.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers added a healthy 255,000 jobs last month, a sign of confidence amid sluggish growth that points to a resilient U.S. economy. July's robust job gain may be enough to reassure investors — and perhaps Federal Reserve policymakers — that the economy will keep growing at a slow but steady pace. A top adviser to Donald Trump said last week that the annual economic growth rate of just 1.2 percent in the April-June quarter was "catastrophic." Hillary Clinton has tended to credit... Читать дальше...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers added a healthy 255,000 jobs last month, a sign of confidence amid sluggish growth that points to a resilient U.S. economy. July's robust job gain may be enough to reassure investors — and perhaps Federal Reserve policymakers — that the economy will keep growing at a slow but steady pace. A top adviser to Donald Trump said last week that the annual economic growth rate of just 1.2 percent in the April-June quarter was "catastrophic." Hillary Clinton has tended to credit... Читать дальше...
The U.S. trade deficit jumped 8.7% in June to a 10-month high of $44.5 billion, reflecting the higher cost of oil and more imports of consumer goods such as cell phones and drugs.
The U.S. trade deficit soared in June as Americans boosted purchases of foreign goods, though broader trends portray a sluggish economy.
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) -- South Korean actor Lee Joon-gi's agency on Friday denied snowballing rumors and reports that the celebrity was shut out of China because of the escalating political tension between the two countries. Lee, who has a large f
(AP) — Southwestern Indiana police say a woman allegedly beat a man with a metal pipe into falsely confessing he was involved in the disappearance of a severely disabled woman. Fifty-one-year-old Debra Wollner of Evansville was arrested Thursday on eight preliminary felony charges, including battery and criminal confinement.
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Loretta Sheehan urged the commission to take immediate action at her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, saying Kealoha has lost public trust. The police chief and his deputy prosecutor wife, Katherine Kealoha, are both accused of using special police units to investigate relatives while they were involved in a family financial dispute.
A DHL cargo plane overshot a runway before crashing on a busy road in the north of Italy. The Boeing 737-400 crashed through barriers at Bergamo Airport before coming to a rest. Nobody was injured in the incident. Photo: Marco Mauri Pude
Amateur video shows Black Lives Matter protesters lying on the tarmac on the slip road to Heathrow airport, as the group marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot by police.
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Former deputy mayor Salim Mehajer has been found not guilty of using a mobile phone whilst driving in a Sydney court on Friday.
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Treasury prices tumbled, leading yields to rise, after the U.S. added 255,000 jobs in July, a number that exceeded expectations and was the second-straight strong gain, after June's stellar report. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note , the U.S. benchmark, climbed 3.5 basis points to 1.542%. Yields and prices move in opposite directions and one basis point is equal to one hundredth of a percentage point. The yield on the benchmark two-year note , which is the most sensitive to interest-rate-hike... Читать дальше...
After former NFL receiver Chad Johnson made a short appearance at training camp for the Browns and then left, he insisted that he’d soon be back — and that he’d stay for the rest of the season. “You really thought I was leaving?” Johnson told Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “This is…
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Australia said on Friday it was suspending funding for relief group World Vision's operations in the Palestinian Territories after allegations its Gaza representative funneled millions of dollars to the Islamist militant group Hamas. Mohammad El Halabi, World Vision's manager of operations in Gaza, was arrested by Israel on June 15 while crossing the border into the enclave, which is under the de facto rule of Hamas, a group on Israeli and U.S. terrorism blacklists.
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Treasury prices tumbled, leading yields to rise, after the U.S. added 255,000 jobs in July, a number that exceeded expectations and was the second-straight strong gain, after June's stellar report.