As traders approach another pivotal day for financial markets, a series of crucial decisions and economic data releases that ...

US labor cost growth cooled in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, reassuring Federal Reserve policymakers wage pressures ...

The labor market is no longer a source of inflation pressures, but economists continue to watch the data closely.

Compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.9 percent, seasonally adjusted, for the 3-month period ending in December ...

Inflation is on track to 2%, but tariff uncertainty is high and the Fed is wary of moving rates until there is clarity ...

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Eyes Key Resistance Levels Above 71.83about 4 hours ago Employment Cost Index measures the growth of employee compensation (wages and benefits). The ECI is based on a survey of employer payrolls ...

The wage and benefits costs that nursing homes and residential care facilities pay workers increased by 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2024.

The employment cost index (ECI), the broadest measure of labor costs, gained 0.9% last quarter after rising 0.8% in the third quarter, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday.

The WSJ Dollar Index is down 0.25 point or 0.24% this month to 102.51 –Largest one-month point and percentage decline since Sept. 2024 –Snaps a three-month winning streak –This week it is up 0.71 ...

Cooling: U.S. labor cost growth cooled last quarter from a year earlier, reassuring Federal Reserve policymakers that wage pressures are gradually diminishing and no longer a key driver of inflation.