1 day ago by etfdesk

Sign up for Daily email and feed at www.etfdesk.com The Invesco PowerShares Monthly ETF Report Posted: 05 Nov 2009 01:40 AM PST Market Performance: Month of October Strategy Focus: Fundamental Indexes: What are you weighting for? ETFs in Focus: PowerShares FTSE RAFI US 1500, Small-Mid Portfolio (PRF ...

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1 day ago by Rajat Anand

Unemployment in the US increased more than expected last month to record a 26 year high as employers continued to cut jobs, showing signs that that the struggle in the labor market carries on as the country’s economy tries to come out of recession. According to reports by the Labor Department, house ...

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3 days ago by Economic Logician

Why are there repeat offender and career criminals? The obvious answers would be that this is where there comparative advantage is, or that they have nothing to lose once they served the first sentence. But what about crime being addicting?This is what Vladimir Kuhl Teles and Joaquim Andrade explore ...

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4 days ago by Casey B. Mulligan

Residential construction spending was higher in September than in August, which was itself higher than in July, which was itself higher than in June. Interestingly, I predicted last December that the housing market would turn around in the summer of 2009. By now, we have seen enough housing price...

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5 days ago by Leslie Merrow

The US staffing market is set for recovery in 2010, according to Ron Mester, managing director of research and analysis firm Staffing Industry Analysts. In a live satellite link up to California at APSCo’s member sales conference in London, Mester told delegates that the value of the world’s largest ...

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9 days ago by gregip

Oct 29th 2009 | WASHINGTON, DC From The Economist print edition Unions are winning again in Washington, but the big fights are still ahead Getty Images [Greg Ip] THREE years ago, when negotiations with the union representing air-traffic controllers reached an impasse, the administration of George Bu ...

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9 days ago by Rajat Anand

A Pretoria based agency, Statistics SA, has reported that employment fell by 3.6 percent in the third quarter and 484,000 jobs were lost. The official rate of unemployment went up from 23.6 percent in the previous quarter to 24.5 percent this quarter. Jobs in the manufacturing sector fell by 8 perce ...

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10 days ago by rbabe

Business Management has an a nifty info-graphic illustrating the pay gap between company CEO’s and the company’s average worker. The takeaways: At Ford Motor Company, the average worker would have to work for a whopping 868 years to earn the same amount that the CEO earns in a single year. At Exxon, ...

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11 days ago by Index Beating

By Joe Chase of IndexBeating.com 22 states realized a decrease in their unemployment rate in September, 7 were unchanged, 21 states and the District of Columbia had a higher rate in September compared to August. The following list shows the range of employment situations, with color coding to make i ...

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12 days ago by Ariel Goldring

In their new paper, Morris M. Kleiner and Alan B. Krueger (NBER) analyze the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market. Not surprisingly, the authors find that licensing pushes wages up: This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using ...

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