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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped as much as 259 points in early trade, but recovered somewhat to trade 62 points, or 0.4, higher at 16,335, with losses in financials including (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ugly-jobs-report-is-punishing-financial-stocks-2015-10-02)J.P....

The newest report came just two weeks after the Fed decided that the economy’s advance was still too fragile to risk lifting interest rates from their near-zero level, even as it hinted that it might go ahead by December.

The longtime opponent to the Federal Reserve claims that foreign exchange markets will eventually figure out what USA policymakers are doing, and then we will be facing a currency crisis which could lead to a USA and global stock market crash. Even if rates increase soon,...

The best performing sector in 3Q was utilities, which was the only one of 10 S&P 500 sectors to close the quarter in positive territory.

The already tepid August jobs level of 173,000 was revised sharply lower to 136,000, surprising analysts who had anticipated a large upward revision which is typical for that month.

The Federal Reserve decided not to lift its key interest rate about two weeks ago, but New York Fed President William Dudley says a rate hike will likely come before 2016.

The weak September jobs report and downward revisions to the prior two months raised fresh fears about the health of the USA economy, which appears to have weakened amid a slowing global economy and recent market turbulence.

So if you’ve been waiting with bated breath to see whether the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates or not, at least after watching this video you can say, “Now I get it”. Over the past 30 years, there have been 4 major tightening cycles in 2004, 1999,...

On Friday the rupee appreciated to a one-month high and bond yields fell to an over three-month low after the US Fed decided to keep interest rates unchanged in its meeting.

Given this information, the Fed “should be a little more uncertain about forecasting inflation than it was”, says Athanasios Orphanides, a former governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus, a Fed economist, and a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Researchers Rachel Margolis and Mikko Myrskylä, examining how the experience of becoming a first-child parent affects the likelihood of having additional children, found that 73 percent of participants expressed decreased happiness after their first child, compared to 27 percent...

Gold steadied not far above a 5-1/2-year low on Monday, with a firm dollar after solid US job gains in July suggesting that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates as early as next month. On Friday, the dollar rose as high as US$0.9885, its loftiest peaks since late March....

Oil prices remained under pressure on worries about oversupply and weak global demand, but gold bucked the trend although by not enough to see the precious metal avoid its longest weekly losing streak since 1999.

Average hourly earnings ticked up 5 cents in July to $24.99 and are now up 2.1 percent year over year.

The report was not bad enough to derail the Fed’s and markets’ expectations for a rate hike this year, and it was not stellar enough to lock in a September rate hike.