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Payrolls, claims, JOLTS, layoffs and wages. The labor market from the primary releases.
September payrolls added just 29,000 jobs and unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, while 3.0% wage growth trails 3.7% inflation. Jobless claims hold near 199,000.
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Eight WARN notices took effect Oct 16 across 774 affected workers, led by Verizon's 282 at Basking Ridge, as telecom restructuring and plant closings run against a labor market still printing claims near 200,000.
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Initial claims ticked up 1,000 to 199,000 for the week ended October 10, yet insured unemployment slid for a second week to 1.71 million, evidence that layoffs are not accelerating even as hiring stalls.
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The last claims print was 197,000, but Thursday's new number is still pending. The harder question is why low filings coexist with slow hiring.
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Netflix plans to eliminate roughly 6 percent of its workforce, about 1,000 positions, in the company's biggest round of layoffs in years, and the cuts hit product, tech, legal and human resources teams hardest.
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Real pay rose about 0.4 percent against core inflation in September even as the 3.7 percent headline CPI cut real wages 0.7 percent year over year, making the squeeze an energy story rather than a broad wage price spiral.
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Real average hourly earnings fell 0.5 percent in September and 0.7 percent over the year, the third straight negative annual print, as a hot CPI outran nominal wage growth.
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A Wisconsin WARN notice schedules the first phase of Durr CTS's De Pere closure for October 13, with 72 permanent job eliminations expected across three phases.
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Employers announced 90,787 seasonal hires in September, 23% fewer than a year earlier, while job cuts fell to 43,281. The gap points to a cooler holiday staffing push, not a collapse in hiring.
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September payrolls rose 29,000, but BLS cut July and August by a net 60,000. Claims stayed low while hiring and quits remained subdued.
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Initial claims fell to 197,000 in the week ending October 3, while continuing claims climbed to 1.716 million, a split that points to low layoffs but slower reemployment.
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Initial claims fell to 197,000 in the week ending October 3, while continuing claims rose to 1.716 million for the week ending September 26. The split points to few new layoffs and a potentially slower return to work.
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