• August 21, 2024

U.S. Employment and Wages See Growth in Q1 2024

According to PANews, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the Employment and Wage Census Report for the first quarter of 2024. The report indicates that as of March 2024, the total employment in the 370 largest counties in the United States reached 153.5856 million people, marking a 1.3% increase compared to the previous year. Additionally, the average weekly wage in the U.S. rose to $1,527 during the same period, reflecting a 4.2% year-over-year growth.

  • August 21, 2024

U.S. Labor Department to Release Q1 Employment and Wage Data

According to BlockBeats, on August 21, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data for the first quarter of this year. Wall Street institutions generally expect a downward revision in employment figures for the year ending in March, though the extent of the revision varies among different analysts.Economists from Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo predict that the BLS will revise the non-farm employment growth figures down by at least 600,000 jobs for the year ending in March, which translates to a reduction of approximately 50,000 jobs per month. JPMorgan's analysts estimate a downward revision of around 360,000 jobs, while Goldman Sachs suggests that the revision could be as high as 1 million jobs. If the employment figures are revised down by more than 501,000 jobs, it would mark the largest downward adjustment in 15 years.

  • August 21, 2024

Bond-Market Pros Are Unimpressed With Baby Whales From Crypto

(Bloomberg) -- They are turning into the strangest of bedfellows in the financial world: The famously safe securities issued by the US Treasury and the notoriously not-so-safe world of cryptocurrencies.Most Read from BloombergThe Serious Work That Free Play Can DoIssuers of crypto stablecoins meant to track the dollar one-for-one have become noticeable players in the Treasury market as they seek the safest and most-liquid assets to back the value of their tokens. For crypto promoters, it’s a dev