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The Conference Board's consumer confidence index fell 6.7 points to 81.9 in September, its lowest in 12 years. Jobs data out the same day held steady. The drop traces to fuel and prices, and those are what a spending forecast built on labour figures alone misses.
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US payrolls grew by 29,000 in September against a 90,000 forecast, cutting market odds of an October Fed hike to 15% from about 25%. A December hike is still fully priced, so traders moved the date of the next rise and kept the rise itself.
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US payrolls rose 29,000 in September against a 90,000 forecast and revisions turned July negative, all but ruling out an October Fed hike. Economists cited by Reuters still call inflation the Fed's main input, so Q4 plans can drop the hike case and hold rates flat.
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US initial jobless claims fell to 197,000 last week, below the 200,000 forecast, as employers kept holding off on layoffs. That leaves an October Fed hike turning on inflation, where August's 3.4% PCE reading came in under the 3.7% forecast.
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Nearly 12,000 comments supporting alternatives in 401(k) plans are now a Justice Department matter. The participant survey in the same debate found 40% of respondents neutral, confused, intimidated or negative.
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Research co-authored by Cambridge Judge's Sienna Helena Parker examined workers over 55 with at least 30 years of experience who turned to freelance platforms, where their credentials bought them little standing with clients.
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The Economics team's scenario explorer only turns ugly for knowledge workers once growth outruns anything in economic history. That is a demanding assumption to bury inside a headcount reduction plan.
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Cognizant published its AI exposure research and its graduate hiring plan on the same day. Read together, they show whose exposure number comes with a caveat attached and whose gets quoted straight.
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Anthony D'Esposito's 44-page report sustains its policy findings on 38 witness accounts and declines to sustain the relationship allegation. The former secretary's lawyer answers a legal question the report never asked.
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The employment-based backlog has passed 1.2 million people against a statutory ceiling of 140,000 a year, which means the preference category an employer files in now matters more to a skilled hire's tenure than the offer letter.
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The steepest annual decline since 1963 is being credited to most favored nation deals. The contracts are not public, the models are not live, and the index measures pharmacy receipts.
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