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January 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's job market may have improved slightly in December, but is not nearly back to its level one year ago, The Conference...

January 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The cost of employing workers grew over the fourth quarter - but at a slower rate than in the previous quarter, according to...

January 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Initial jobless claims, recently at a six-month low, have risen by 30,000 in the latest week, according to the Department of Labor (DoL).

(PLANSPONSOR.com) - New criteria have been set for inclusion in the TSE 300 index, with company size and liquidity being the chief attributes considered, just one of a...

January 31, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The dot.com job bloodbath appears to be letting up.

January 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock funds attracted $3.4 billion in new money in December, a mere trickle compared to the $15.3 billion worth of inflows in November,...

January 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Federal Open Market Committee decided to leave the Fed funds interest rate unchanged at 1.75%, reasoning that the outlook for economic recovery...

January 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Controlling health costs and planning for retirement topped the agendas of benefits specialists surveyed by The International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists...

January 30, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - This year, executives shouldn't expect the fat bonus paychecks that they've become accustomed to, a consulting group survey found.

January 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A majority of human resource professionals feel that high school graduates are not qualified to enter the workforce, a survey by the Society...

January 29, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With one-time institutional backers staying on the sidelines, the US venture capital market saw the amount invested in US companies plunging 65% to...

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six in 10 investors at a San Francisco money manager say they're not going to backpedal from a portfolio with aggressive growth, small-cap,...

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Younger workers are often hardest hit by a tight job market, according to USAToday.

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Dow Jones Indexes has agreed to develop a group of indexes for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Dow Jones announced. The first...

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Human Resources professionals may now brush up on their job skills through a new online class from Cornell University.

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It may offer small solace to thousands of laid-off workers across the country, but politicians can't seem to line up fast enough to...

January 28, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Technical workers may be more nervous in the workplace than they were before the September 11 attacks, but they're not nervous enough to...

January 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BellSouth Telecommunications has agreed to pay $200,000 and enhanced retirement benefits to a former worker, who claimed she was fired because of her...

January 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The combined assets of the nation's exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were $82.99 billion at the end of December 2001, up 5.2% from the end...

January 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stocks on the Nasdaq market react most emphatically to surprise Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes or when the central bankers make less of a...