Employment/Unemployment Figures

Jobless claims reached their lowest level of the pandemic last week as stronger hiring and consumer spending drive a U.S. economic revival. Worker filings for unemployment benefits, a proxy for layoffs, fell to…

Here’s what we’re watching ahead of Thursday’s opening bell. —U.S. stock futures fell a day after the Federal Reserve’s outlook and policy statement lifted both the Dow and the S&P 500 to records.…

Stock futures slipped Thursday, signaling that technology shares will lead declines for major indexes as investors awaited earnings and assessed fresh data on the U.S. labor market. Futures on the S&P 500 edged…