The Producer Price Index (PPI), which measures wholesale prices, rose in June after seeing no change in May. Final demand prices rose 0.2% in June after remaining unchanged in May and increasing 0.5% in April, in seasonally adjusted figures, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)...
The number of job openings in the United States declined by 4.8% in April. There were 8.1 million job openings available on the last business day of April, down from 8.4 million in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said in a Job Openings and Labor...
The latest data from the government on consumer prices indicates a bit of weary truth: Inflation’s settled in, seemingly for the long haul. The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted on Tuesday (Feb. 13) in a news release that, overall, prices were up 3.1% in January, as...
New government research shows that markups on new vehicles helped drive the inflation plaguing consumers. A recent study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that those added profits contributed 0.3 to 0.7 percentage points to the almost 16% increase in the Consumer...
February 13, 2024
The latest data from the government on consumer prices indicates a bit of weary truth: Inflation’s settled in, seemingly for the long haul. The Bureau of Labor Statistics noted on Tuesday (Feb. 13) in a news release that, overall, prices were up 3.1% in January, as measured year on year and 0.3% higher as measured month […]
February 04, 2019
On Friday (Feb. 1), the government reported job numbers that blew away expectations. Data from the BLS and ADP, triangulated against the PYMNTS/Hyperwallet Gig Economy Index, showed that as full-time...
August 28, 2024
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is changing how it announces data after an incident in which a data release was delayed but the information was shared with some external users who called or emailed to ask about it. This incident — which centered on a 32-minute delay in the release of preliminary payroll employment data […]
July 12, 2024
The Producer Price Index (PPI), which measures wholesale prices, rose in June after seeing no change in May. Final demand prices rose 0.2% in June after remaining unchanged in May...
June 04, 2024
The number of job openings in the United States declined by 4.8% in April. There were 8.1 million job openings available on the last business day of April, down from...
April 23, 2023
New government research shows that markups on new vehicles helped drive the inflation plaguing consumers. A recent study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that those added...
