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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Job Openings Fall Below Expectations

The number of job openings fell by 284,000 to 7.009 million in September, well below Econoday's range of expectations. The surprisingly steep drop was inflated by a sharp upward revision to August job openings from 7.136 million to 7.293 million. September's decline also shaved the year-on-year job openings gain to 12.5 percent, down sharply from 18.1 percent in the prior month. Meanwhile the number of hires in September fell to 5.744 million after reaching a revised series high of 5.906 million in August.

But the quits rate, previously described as "elevated" by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and regarded as a precursor of wage pressures, remained at 17-year highs of 2.4 percent.

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