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Bitcoin sat at $85,276 on Sunday, below the $86,000 area it hit before payrolls, even as Glassnode put October Fed hike odds at 22% from 66%. This week's fund-flow data will show whether ETF buyers are taking over from the short covering that lifted it.
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US employers added 29,000 jobs in September while the Bureau of Labor Statistics cut 60,000 from its July and August counts. With layoffs still falling, the data describe a hiring freeze that argues for slowing headcount plans and holding cuts in reserve.
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Bitcoin briefly crossed $87,000 on Oct. 2 after US employers added just 29,000 jobs in September against about 90,000 expected. Traders added roughly $2.3 billion of futures positions during the climb, so more leverage now rides on the Fed's Oct. 28 decision.
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Construction added 109,000 jobs in a year, growing 2.4 times as fast as professional and business services in BLS payrolls released October 2. Wolf Richter credits data centers, factories and power plants, so hiring is following capital spending into physical projects.
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Bitcoin rose to $86,757 after August core PCE came in at 3.0% against 3.3% expected and October hold odds jumped to 74% from 35.8%. The year's sub-$1 billion ETF total understates the buying, because a strong third quarter first had to cover first-half redemptions.
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Fortune's review of BLS data counts 189,000 creative jobs lost since 2022, 120,000 of them in film and sound recording after a 27% fall. Los Angeles shoot days fell faster than film jobs, a pattern that fits a production slump better than AI replacing crews.
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Long-dated Treasury yields have hit 21st-century highs on federal deficits, hyperscaler bond sales and oil near $100, even as August inflation came in soft. Some market participants cited by Seoul Economic Daily allow for a 6% 30-year yield, on debt supply the Fed's October meeting does not touch.
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Battery Ventures led a $40 million Series B in Miter, a construction payroll and workforce software company, lifting its total raised to $78 million. The round is larger than all of Miter's earlier funding combined and pays for a push from paying crews into contractors' payables, safety and project data.
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US payrolls grew by 162,000 in August, nearly triple the 55,000 economists expected. For anyone planning headcount, that net gain says less about candidate supply than the hiring and quit rates beneath it.
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US workers quit 3.07 million jobs in August, 23,000 fewer than in July, Bureau of Labor Statistics JOLTS data show. Fewer resignations mean fewer seats to refill, but the case for easing pay pressure still rests on the 2021-22 experience.
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July CPI at 0.1% and flat PPI took the near-term rate scare off the table. What is left holding up records above 7,800 is a bet on how long GPUs stay useful.
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Mercer's survey of 1,800 employers has benefit costs per employee rising 8.2% in 2027, the steepest jump since 2003. Two-thirds of large companies plan to raise the employee premium share, and one independent medical practice was quoted 22.5%.
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Payrolls in both sectors are back at their 2019 levels. The two AI companies headquartered in San Francisco are asking markets for roughly $11 million for every job left in the sectors where their hiring lands.
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United, Southwest and American told Morgan Stanley's Laguna Conference that high fuel means fewer flights and higher fares this winter. Their own CFOs say fuel reaches fares with a lag, so the increase lands on first-quarter bookings.
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Cloudflare's chief security officer says he put more than 250 agents on foundational controls in nine months and still expects headcount to grow, while a former Google director expects fewer hires held to a higher bar.
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Mercer's survey of 1,800 employers puts health costs per worker up 8.2% in 2027, the steepest rise since 2003, and the $3.48 an hour employers already spend on health insurance comes out of the same budget as pay.
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Maria Black's read of payroll data from more than 1 million clients moves the problem from headcount cuts to skills-based team design. ADP also happens to sell the remedy.
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Labor's share of nonfarm business output was 52.8% in the second quarter, the lowest since the series began in 1947, and the study now being read as the AI explanation for it measured just 11 highly exposed occupations.
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WalletHub finds 43% of Americans expect to work until they die and 29% are counting on relatives. The one measured labor-supply figure in the file, employment among the over-65s, has climbed about 0.3 points a year.
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The GAO counted 12,346 Amazon workers on SNAP across eleven states, close to triple its 2020 finding, over a stretch in which the company's annual profit went from $11.6bn to $77.7bn. Labor's share of output is 52.8%.
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