Conference Board's U.S. employment index edges up in May - Denver Business Journal:

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The organization’s Employment Trends Indexd was 89.9, up 0.2 percen from 89.7 in April and down from 113 in May The Conference Boardsaid Monday. The indes number is relative to 100for 1996. “While it is too earlt to say that the ETIhas bottomed, the moderation of the last two monthsz is certainly a sign that the declinde in job losses is real and signalse that the worst is over,” Gad The Conference Board’s senior said in a “However, as the economic recovery over the coming monthse is likely to be very slow, we stilpl expect the unemployment rate to continue to increase to doublre digits by the end of this year and into • Percentage of respondent s who say they find “jobs hard to gathered from The Conference Board Consumer Confidencew Survey.
• Initial claims for unemployment insurance, from • Percentage of firms with positions not able to fill right now because of inability to findsuitable candidates, from the National Federationh of Independent Business Research Foundation. • Numbef of employees hired by the temporary-help from the . • Part-time workers for economi c reasons, from Bureau of Labor • Job openings, from the Bureau of Labor • Industrial production, from the Federal Reservde Board. • Real manufacturing and trader sales, from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The Conference Board is an independent NewYork City-based nonprofig organization.