Economists’ anxiety about official U.S. inflation data is growing. One major issue: They don’t have the numbers they need to ...

Seasonal noise” around government hiring skewed the numbers upward, analysts say, and payrolls are in fact pretty weak.

Caroline Woods delivers the pre-market update on July 16th. Stocks are pointing to a weaker open Wednesday morning as investors digest a second batch of big bank earnings and awai ...

The Trump administration and many market observers are offering diametrically opposed explanations for why dramatic tariff ...

Consumer prices rose 2.7% in June compared to 12 months earlier, the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics also reported.

Wall Street braces for June CPI data, as economists warn of hotter inflation driven by tariffs. A surprise print could jolt ...

The Fed and Wall Street Are Both Trying to Figure Out the Labor Market. ... That said, a softer jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday could be enough to nudge Powell into action.

News about Bureau of Labor Statistics, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. ... While the Public Awaited Jobs Data, Wall Street Firms Got a Look.

Ben Leubsdorf was formerly a reporter in The Wall Street Journal's Washington bureau, covering the economy. He joined the Journal in January 2014 after working for the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire ...