{"id":2041,"date":"2025-12-09T16:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:02:30","slug":"the-low-hire-low-fire-economy-crawls-along-with-job-openings-unchanged-from-september-to-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=2041","title":{"rendered":"The low-hire, low-fire economy crawls along with job openings unchanged from September to October"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. job openings barely budged in October, coming in at 7.7 million with ongoing uncertainty over the\u00a0direction of the American economy.<\/p>\n

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The Labor Department reported Tuesday that employers posted 7.67 million vacancies in October, close to September\u2019s 7.66 million.<\/p>\n

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), which was delayed by the extended government shutdown, also showed that the layoffs rose and number of people quitting their jobs \u2014 a sign of confidence in the labor market \u2014 fell in October.<\/p>\n

Job openings have come down steadily since peaking at a record 12.1 million in March 2022, when the economy was roaring back from COVID-19 lockdowns. The job market has cooled partly because of the lingering effect of the high interest rates the Federal engineered in 2022 and 2023 to combat an outburst of inflation.<\/p>\n

Overall, it\u2019s a puzzling time for the American economy, buffeted by President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to reverse decades of U.S. policy in favor of free trade and instead impose double-digit tariffs on imports from most of the world\u2019s countries.<\/p>\n

Policymakers at the Federal Reserve are meeting this week to decide whether to cut their benchmark interest rate, and the gathering is expected to be\u00a0unusually contentious.\u00a0Inflation remains stuck above the Fed\u2019s 2% target, partly because importers have tried to pass along the cost of Trump\u2019s tariffs by raising prices. Normally, stubborn inflation would discourage Fed policymakers from cutting rates. But the job market has looked shaky in recent months, and the Fed is expected to reduce its benchmark rate for the third time this year, though some policymakers might dissent.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the 43-day federal shutdown has made a mess of the government\u2019s economic statistics.<\/p>\n

The October report on job openings came out a week late, and the September version was not published separately because federal data collectors were on furlough. Instead, September\u2019s JOLTS numbers were folded into Tuesday\u2019s report along with October\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The Labor Department will issue numbers for hiring and unemployment in November next Tuesday, 11 days later than originally scheduled. The department is not releasing an unemployment rate for October because it could not calculate the number during the shutdown. It will release some of the October jobs data \u2014 including the number of positions that employers created that month \u2014 along with the full November jobs report.<\/p>\n

Forecasters surveyed by the data firm FactSet predict that employers added fewer than 38,000 jobs in November and that the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.5% from September\u2019s 4.4%, how by historical standards but the highest in nearly four years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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