Bloomberg The percentage of people in the US aged 25 to 54 who are employed or actively looking for work has climbed to the highest in a decade as demand in the health-care and education sectors lures more women into the workforce. Labour force participation in the so-called prime-age group rose to 82.8% in October, matching the rate from August ...

Bloomberg United Auto Workers (UAW) President Gary Jones, who led negotiations that ended an almost six-week strike at General Motors Co was expected to take a leave of absence Sunday amid reports he is involved in a years-long corruption scandal. Those allegations clouded contract talks with US automakers. “I do not want anything to distract from the mission,” Jones said ...

Bloomberg Stock investors have stopped heeding the increasingly skeptical message of Wall Street earnings forecasters. Maybe everyone should. Pessimism of any type is starting to look like a misjudgment in the stock market of 2019, a year with a shot at becoming one of the best in decades. The S&P 500 has surged for four straight weeks, closing at a ...