Trump, via the Elon Musk-spearheaded Department of Government Efficiency, is in the process of gutting some federal agencies.

The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq were set to open little changed on Friday as the stock market awaits the January jobs report.

Economists are betting that 2025 kicked off with cooler levels of job growth. But overall stable labor conditions should keep ...

The U.S. economy added fewer jobs in January than economists had forecast, although the jobless rate edged lower.

The U.S. labor market probably started 2025 the way it spent most of last year: generating decent, but unspectacular, job ...

Big earnings such as Robinhood, Shopify and AppLovin, along with inflation reports, are potential market headwinds.

January's jobs report was a mixed bag of data that will probably lead the Federal Reserve to continue holding off on any more ...

The Dow was on pace for a 0.4% weekly gain, while the S&P 500 was up 0.5% so far and the Nasdaq Composite was 0.7% higher ...

Photo: Catherine McQueen () Job creation was weaker than expected for the first month of 2025, even as unemployment edged down. Nonfarm payrolls climbed 143,000 in Jan ...

Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered representative of layoffs. The four-week average, which evens out ...