In Review: Week of April 27th, 2020. A slew of economic data was released last week, giving us even greater insight into the pandemic’s impact on our economy. Most significantly, the latest Initial Jobless Claims showed that 3.8 million people filed unemployment claims during the week ending April 25, which was close to market estimates. […]

In Review: Week of April 6th, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the labor sector. The latest Initial Jobless Claims filing was another whopping number, coming in just shy of the record filings set in the previous week. Inflation news also made headlines, as the wholesale-measuring Producer Price Index and the more […]

In Review: Week of March 30th, 2020. March did not go quietly “out like a lamb” this year, with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic evident in key labor sector reports. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 701,000 job losses in March, much worse than expectations, while the ADP report showed 27,000 job losses. Unfortunately, […]