U.S. job growth unexpectedly accelerated in December while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% as the labor market ended the ...

The US economy added 256,000 jobs last month, the most since March, bolstering the case for a pause in Federal Reserve ...

A hot jobs report makes it even more likely the Federal Reserve won’t cut rates at its next meeting in January — or for the foreseeable future.

The last jobs report of 2024 showed the labor market in good shape after the Federal Reserve warned of a more cautious approach to interest rate cuts this year.

U.S. stocks are recoiling on worries that good news on the job market may be too good and prove to be bad for Wall Street by ...

An ongoing polar vortex caused cold weather in several regions of the U.S. and Europe, with snowstorms sweeping across the ...

The surprising 256,000 increase in new jobs in December and a declining unemployment rate is good news, but the latest ...

A rate cut from the Federal Reserve was already very unlikely this month, and the December jobs report slammed the door shut on any such prospect. Fed officials began cutting rates last September amid ...

An estimated 72.5 million Social Security recipients will benefit from a 2.5 percent increase in their payments this year thanks to the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA).

In normal times, this might be considered a good thing: far from job creation slowing down in December as analysts had ...

U.S. stocks are sinking on worries that Friday’s good news on the job market may be too good and prove to be bad for Wall ...

Including December’s gains, which are subject to revision, the economy added about 2.2 million jobs in 2024, an average of ...