Topic: Jobs

The U.S. labor market will strengthen significantly next year, with monthly job growth expected to average 200,000, according to a new survey published on Monday.

Many unemployed, older Americans who, while struggling to re-enter the workforce, have growing worries that their retirement security is at risk.

China's factory output rose by 9.3 percent in April compared with March's 11.9 percent, sharply underperforming expectations as cooling demand at home and abroad dragged on production growth, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.

Many jobs that let reserved types work in solitude offer poor salaries and unchallenging work. But there are other careers that are stimulating, well-paying and require little human contact. Read ahead to see some of the best jobs in the U.S. for loners.

U.S. companies in March posted the highest number of job openings in nearly four years, a sign that hiring could strengthen in the coming months after slowing this spring.

Many countries finance their Olympic competitors, but not the United States, where athletes fund their own training. Sometimes charities help, and organizations take donations, but more often than not, athletes have to get jobs like the rest of us and fit in the training.

Concerned about Wal-Mart’s reported cover-up of bribery in its Mexico operations, leaders of New York City’s pension funds said Monday they would vote their 4.7 million company shares against five directors standing for re-election to the retailer’s board at its annual shareholder meeting next month, the New York Times reports.

"Our strategy is based on a lackluster recovery. So we are assuming it will be a lackluster economy, Pimco CEO Mohamed El-Erian tells CNBC's Closing Bell.

The employment situation across the world is alarming, and there is little sign of recovery any time soon as austerity and spending cuts bite, a report out Monday warned.

Fiscal austerity and tough labor reforms have failed to create jobs, leading to an "alarming" situation in the global employment market that shows no sign of recovering, the International Labour Organization said on Sunday.

Thousands of people protested across Spain on Sunday against government cuts aimed at tackling a debt crisis that has pushed the country back into recession and sent unemployment close to 25 percent.

HSBC, Europe's biggest bank, is set to cut about 2,000 jobs in Britain on Thursday as part of its drive to slash costs and boost profitability in the face of a changing banking landscape, a person familiar with the matter said.

Large U.S. manufacturers are much more likely than their smaller peers to move production to the United States from China, according to a survey.

Growth in productivity is slowing at a rapid pace across Asia, says Frederic Neumann, economist at HSBC, which he believes could dent the region’s competitive edge, especially as a low cost manufacturing hub.

In a tense and occasionally contentious conference call with reporters and Washington bureau chiefs Tuesday, officials from the Department of Labor laid out new security rules surrounding the release of the government’s monthly jobs report and other market moving economic data.  The dispute has implications for just how quickly Wall Street will be able to get one of the most market moving pieces of data, and raises the question of whether all market participants would continue to get the information at exactly the same instant.