A recently published January jobs report by ADP Research, a labor market and employee performance research firm, once again put a spotlight on the U.S. jobs market, with about 22,000 private sector jobs added overall including 74,000 jobs in healthcare, but with another monthly decline in manufacturing jobs, a sector that has been shedding jobs on a monthly basis since March 2024. The reported 22,000 figure was drastically below Dow Jones' consensus estimate of 45,000 jobs ad

The member states of the EU have approved the signing of a free trade agreement between the European Union and the Latin American states of Mercosur, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. A recent addition, Bolivia, will eventually be able to participate in the same. The agreement, in the making since 1999, will form a trade bloc of more than 700 million people with 90% of tariffs to be removed by 2040. What this will mean in practice is two-fold in strong validation of g

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) yesterday reported preliminary figures indicating that 50,000 jobs were added in December 2025, and a slightly lower unemployment rate of 4.4% vs. 4.6% in November 2025. Jobs figures were reportedly shared a day before official release by President Trump, but that is another story. Reports the BLS, "Employment continued to trend up in food services and drinking places, health care, and social assistance. Retail trade lost jobs." In co