Metro St. Louis lost 9,000 jobs between May 2007 and May 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s the third straight month that St. Louis has posted a negative number, and it’s our biggest year-over-year decline in more than…

The unemployment rate for metro St. Louis rose to 5.3 percent in April from 4.6 percent a year earlier, marking the 12th straight month of rising unemployment here. That equates to 10,300 additional St. Louisans seeking work, acccording to the…

St. Louis housing prices dropped 0.04 percent in the first quarter, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight reported last week. That’s not bad, considering that OFHEO’s national index fell 1.7 percent, the largest quarterly decline on record.

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The number of jobs in metro St. Louis shrank by 5,000, or 0.4 percent, between April 2007 and April 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s similar to the (revised) 7,000-job loss for March, which, as I’ve mentioned, was…

Zillow.com’s home-price index for the St. Louis area fell 2 percent in the first quarter and 5.2 percent in the latest 12 months, the real-estate data firm said today. Its numbers paint a considerably bleaker picture than the latest government…

High gasoline prices shouldn’t hurt St. Louis tourism much this summer, Kathleen “Kitty” Ratcliffe said today in an upbeat discussion with the Post-Dispatch editorial board. Ratcliffe is president of the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission, a job she began two years ago…

The unemployment rate for metro St. Louis jumped to 6.4 percent in March from 5.0 percent a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said today. This fits with the dismal story told by the BLS’ payroll survey, which shows St.…

We’ve complained mildly about the quality of local employment statistics, but it looks like they’re going to get worse before they get better. Mark Liebman, senior economist at Fox Business, notes that the Bureau of Labor Statistics will stop reporting…

 If there is a recession going on, St. Louis is feeling it.

We’ve noted recently how St. Louis’ job growth numbers were getting weaker. Now, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’  figures for March show that we aren’t growing at all. The…

Metro St. Louis’ unemployment jumped to 6.2 percent in February from 5.6 percent a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning. This is consistent with the January rate, which was revised slightly upward to 6.4 percent, but…