The US economy defied expectations in December, adding 256,000 nonfarm payroll jobs, surpassing economists forecast of ...

Not long ago the consensus on Wall Street was that the Fed would cut rates several times in 2025. Activity in derivative markets show traders now only expect slightly more than one rate hike cut this ...

These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Mortgage rates inched up in response to data showing that the labor market is ...

The Dow DJIA dropped almost 700 points Friday, booking a back-to-back weekly decline that left it down 1.4% so far in January. That marked the index's worst performance over the first six trading days ...

The December jobs report's unexpected surge in hiring has flipped the thinking about the labor market and economy on its head. But at the same time, there's good reason to think that the economy is ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. job growth surged and unemployment fell last month, an unexpected show of strength that may prove ...

Minutes suggest that Fed policymakers were already returning to the data-dependent mindset in the face of the incoming Trump ...

The Federal Reserve has been "less focused on the job market recently," and today’s better-than-expected employment report ...

The morning trading is as straightforward as it is unpleasant.  Nonfarm payrolls crushed expectations (256k vs 160k f'cast) ...

U.S. employers added more than a quarter-million jobs in December, according to the Labor Department. That's far more than ...

Health care added 46,100 jobs in December, with gains focused in home health care services (+15,200), nursing and residential ...