Author : Calculated Risk

Graphs for Construction Employment, Duration of Unemployment, Unemployment by Education and Diffusion Indexes by Bill McBride on 4/07/2013 02:27:00 PM Earlier on the employment report:...

Japan's benchmark Nikkei index traded nearly 4 percent higher on Friday while the yen plunged to a three-and-a-half-year low against the greenback ... The BOJ's...

The euro zone jobless rate rose to 12.0 percent in the first two months of the year, the latest in a series of record highs...

I'm frequently asked if the recent improvement in the economic data might be a seasonal glitch. Not according the analysts at Nomura (who first noticed it): Diminishing seasonal...