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U.S. jobless claims set a more than 50-year low last week as the red-hot labor market shows few signs of cooling in the near-term. The Labor Department released its latest weekly jobless claims report Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Initial jobless claims, week ended March 19: 187,000 vs. 210,000 expected and a revised 215,000 during prior week Continuing claims, week ended March 12: 1.350… Source link

Homebuying activity faded in February. Existing home sales declined 7.2% to a seasonally adjusted 6.02 million units in February from a month earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The number of sales was down 2.4% from the same month a year ago. January home sales figures were revised slightly down to 6.49 million from 6.5 million. The results came in much higher than analysts’ expectations of a 6.2% month-over-month decline to 6.1 million units, according to… Source link

With the NCAA men’s tournament tipping off in earnest with a full slate of games on Thursday, we pulled together a roundtable to answer burning questions that’ll help you fill out your Tourney Pick’em bracket. Here are our Cinderellas, dark horses, first No. 1s to fall, best first-round bets and Final Four/champion picks. Which No. 1 seed will fall first? Frank Schwab: Baylor is the most vulnerable. They are a good team but losing your leading rebounder (Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua, done for… Source link

Nicknamed “the Bond King” by Fortune Magazine in 2002, Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) founder Bill Gross made both a name and a very profitable empire managing bond funds. At the height of his career, Gross earned over $300 million in net returns and had accumulated almost $500 billion in assets. Then it all came tumbling down. Gross stepped down from PIMCO following a widely-publicized internal conflict between him and fellow chief executive Mohamed A. El-Erian. More… Source link

The S&P 500 and Dow rose Monday to shake off some recent losses, with investors looking ahead to the Federal Reserve’s next monetary policy decision later this week amid an ongoing war in Ukraine and soaring inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 0.7% just after market open as the index recovered some losses following five straight weekly losses. The Nasdaq erased earlier gains to trade lower. U.S. crude oil prices (CL=F) briefly dipped below $103 per barrel to a… Source link

As COVID-19 cases began to fall after the winter Omicron variant surge, governors across the country are beginning to ditch mask and vaccine mandates — presenting a conundrum for business owners who aren’t entirely certain if they want to follow suit. Places like Florida and Texas have long abandoned indoor masking requirements, but major coastal cities are finally rolling back COVID-related restrictions. Monday will mark the official end of New York City’s vaccine passport system, with the… Source link

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Homebuying in the U.S. was slower than anticipated in the first month of 2022. Pending home sales, a leading indicator of the health of the housing market, declined for the third straight month. The National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index, which tracks the number of homes that are under contract to be sold, fell 5.7% in January from December and dropped 9.5% from the same month a year ago. Contract signings were down across all regions in the U.S. The results came… Source link

The entrance to the Activision Blizzard Inc. campus is shown in Irvine, California, U.S., August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake Activision Blizzard (ATVI) reported its Q4 2021 earnings after the bell on Thursday, falling well short of analysts’ estimates on the top and bottom line. The report will be the company’s first since Microsoft (MSFT) announced it will acquire the video game giant for $68.7 billion in January. Here are the most important numbers from the report compared to Wall Street’s… Source link

Stocks renewed declines Monday as investors looked ahead to a busy week of corporate earnings results, economic data and a Federal Reserve monetary policy-setting meeting after an already volatile stretch of trading. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each dropped more than 2%, while the Dow fell by more than 1.5%. During intraday trading, the S&P 500 was off by more than 10% from its record closing high from Jan. 3, putting it on track to enter a correction. And the Nasdaq Composite fell further into a… Source link