US employers added a respectable 175,000 jobs in April, but still short of the estimated 233,000 jobs that economists had predicted.

But at 3.5 hires per 100 current employees, the anemic rate of onboarding is closer to what the US experienced a decade ago during the long “jobless recovery” from the global financial crisis — an ...

Oil prices settled lower on Friday, and posted their steepest weekly loss in three months as investors weighed weak U.S. jobs data and possible timing of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut.

The slowdown marked a break from a string of data showing surprising strength in the labor market. Wages rose less than ...

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed last week to its highest level since late November, another setback for home shoppers in what's traditionally the housing market's ...

There is plenty of scope for material worsening of financial conditions if the macro and geopolitical outlooks deteriorate, Capital Economics said.

Friday’s government report showed that last month’s hiring gain was down sharply from the blockbuster increase of 315,000 in March. And it was well below the 233,000 gain that economists had predicted ...

U.S. job growth slowed more than expected in April and the increase in annual wages fell below 4.0% for the first time in nearly three years, but it is probably too early to expect that the Federal ...

WASHINGTON >> U.S. job growth slowed more than expected in April and the increase in annual wages fell below 4.0% for the first time in nearly three years, but it is probably too early to expect that ...