Apr 11, 2015
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Oil Slump Pushes S&P Toward First Profit Decline Since 2009
Tumbling oil prices and a stronger dollar are pushing down U.S. corporate profits for the first time in more than five years, hurting companies from Exxon Mobil Corp. to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
- By Richard Clough and Jow Carroll from BloombergBusiness
Job Openings and Labor Turnover - February 2015
There were 5.1 million job openings on the last business day of February, little changed from 5.0 million in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Hires were little changed at 4.9 million in February and separations were little changed at 4.7 million. Within separations, the quits rate was 1.9 percent and the layoffs and discharges rate was 1.1 percent; both rates were little different from the previous month. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the nonfarm sector by industry and by four geographic regions.
- By Bureau of Labor Statistics from United States Department of Labor
- Graph courtesy of Bloomberg L.P.
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