DoL: Market Hemorrhaged Jobs in August
September 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A day after the government reported an unexpected leap in first-time unemployment claims, officials announced...
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Fragile Recovery Expectations Shattered By Jobless Claims Jump
September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just as economists were hoping the US job market was finally beginning to firm up,...
August Announced Layoffs Show a Decrease
September 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In another sign that the domestic labor market may finally be firming up, the number...
Blackout Carryover Pushes up Jobless Totals
August 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unemployment benefit claims ticked up a bit last week - mostly because a few thousand...
Jobless Totals Take a Plunge
August 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US job market continued showing signs of regaining its strength with a government report...
Mass Layoffs Spike in Second Quarter
August 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of second-quarter extended mass layoffs and the workers involved both spiked over data...
Jobless Claim Totals Uptick – But Only By a Sliver
August 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For the first time in four weeks, the number of workers lining up to file...
Fed Holds Rates Steady
August 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With US interest rates at a 45-year-low, Federal Reserve monetary policy-makers took a wait-and-see stance...
Jobless Claims Queue Keeps Shrinking
August 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The line for Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits keeps getting shorter.
Jobless Rate Drops; Employers Still Slashing Positions
August 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the nation's July jobless rate slid for the first time since May 2002, employers...
S&P: Junk Bond Downgrades Lower YTD In 2003
August 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Year-to-date, the number of corporate debt instruments downgraded to "junk" status is down to 40,...
MSCI: Asian Issues Lead July World Equities
August 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The MSCI All Country World Index Free turned in a 2.08% July return with a...
Jobless Claims Totals Below 400,000 For 2nd Week
July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US jobless picture continued to brighten last week as initial jobless claims dipped to...
Employment Costs Edge 0.9% Higher in Second Quarter
July 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Continuing to ride the ever-escalating wave of benefit costs, the Employment Cost Index (ECI) for...
Jobless Claims Total Lowest Since February
July 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The long-suffering US job market finally showed some strength last week as the queue of...
Fitch: Bond Defaults Fall 47% in First Half of 2003
July 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A ray of sunshine is peaking through the corporate bond default storm clouds of 2002...
Jobless Claims Turn Down
July 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The good news in Thursday's regular jobless claims report was that the number of Americans...
Equities Rule the Roost With June UITs
July 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unit investment trusts (UIT) enjoyed their second straight boffo month in June with a healthy...
Talbot Leaves SSgA For BGI
July 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Mark Talbot, the former head of international fixed income at State Street Global Advisors (SSgA),...
Initial Jobless Claims Jump For Second Week
July 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US job picture continued to be full of doom and gloom Thursday with word...