Ed Kalecki

Bloomberg's Monica Ricks reports.

Easter candy sales are down 5% this year, mostly due to higher chocolate prices.

Diana Rosero-Pena is a consumer equity research analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence.

Bloomberg analyst Diana Rosero-Pena on Bloomberg this weekend.

Cadbury is the best-selling brand of chocolate this time of year, followed by Reese's and Hershey's, Jelly Belly Top's non-chocolate brands.

U.S.

job growth rebounded in March, which is a sign the labor market was stabilizing as the war in Iran started.

But Bloomberg's Mike McKee says there's a reason it looked better than expected.

Bloomberg's Mike McKee on Bloomberg this weekend.

Economists expect the war to have more of an impact on future jobs reports if the conflict continues.

A federal judge has halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions

aren't considering race and admissions.

The ruling from U.S.

District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV in Boston on Friday, granting the preliminary injunction, follows a lawsuit filed last month by a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general.

It will only apply to public universities and plaintiffs.

The federal judge said the federal government likely has the authority to collect the data, but the demand was rolled out to universities in a rushed and chaotic manner.

That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now.

I'm Ed Kalecki.

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President Trump Friday issued a memo ordering that the remaining Department of Homeland Security employees be paid during a record-long partial government shutdown impacting the agency.