New applications for unemployment benefits haven’t been this low since 1969, fresh data showed Thursday. The number of first-time filings for unemployment benefits tumbled last week by 22,000 to an ...
New jobless benefits claims fall to the lowest in nearly six decades Seasonal quirks were partly to blame but low level of claims is encouraging for job market, economists say Solid job market leaves ...
Much of the U.S. and Europe have been facing record high temperatures and relentless heat domes this summer, but the Earth’s most southern continent just recorded a new low temperature. On July 18, ...
Oil shocks from the war with Iran and the Russia-Ukraine conflict have left the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve at its lowest level since 1983. WSJ’s David Uberti explains how we got here. Photo ...
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