News with the tag "statistics"

Job openings in the United States rose in January to service a steady demand for workers even as federal layoffs tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are expected to take effect in the coming months. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Tuesday, available ...

The US job market slowed down a bit in January, with job creation dropping to 143,000 new positions, which is way below December’s upwardly revised 307,000 and far off the 169,000 economists expected, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report on Feb. 7. The unemployment rate dropped t...

History shows a rise in stock market indexes will be accompanied by increasing Bitcoin and crypto market prices, albeit in a more volatile manner.

Predictions markets had an edge on the polls in the 2024 US election, but are they actually helping pundits predict the future?

Inflation in the United States just hit 2.6% in October, giving the Federal Reserve plenty to chew on before its next – and final – meeting of the year. With President-elect Donald Trump about to take back the Oval Office, the Fed faces a critical choice: Should it go ahead with another rate cut? Or

Several missed economic data forecasts raised concerns among experts and investors concerning China’s ability to hit the projected 5% annual growth. Vasu Menon, the managing director for investment strategy at OCBC in Singapore, said finance minister Lan Fo’an’s press conference lacked numerical det...

Credit card debt interest rates have significantly risen in the last four years. The U.S. credit card rates have now surged to an all-time high of 23.4%, and the total credit card debt also staged a record number by surpassing the trillion dollar mark.

While some say that prediction markets are a risk to democracy, others think they could serve the public by offering valuable insights and risk management tools.

NFT transactions dropped 32% from 7.3 million in August to 4.9 million in September.

The Australian Federal Police revealed that scammers are using deepfakes and pig butchering as their primary methods to defraud victims.