Payrolls, claims, JOLTS, layoffs and wages from the primary releases.
Weekly desk. Headline, revision and three-month average together; WARN and Challenger treated as leading but noisy.
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Workers lost ground against prices in August 2026 as 3.4% annual inflation outstripped a 3.1% increase in average hourly earnings.
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U.S. employers announced 52,881 job cuts in August 2026, up 58% from July but down 38% from the same month last year, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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Initial claims held near 206,000 while JOLTS hiring fell to a six-month low, signaling firms are neither expanding nor cutting.
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