Job Openings at 3.8% (down 0.1%), Hiring at 3.7% (unch.)

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The number of job openings was little changed at 5.8 million on the last business day of December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the month, hires and separations were little changed at 5.5 million and 5.2 million, respectively. Within separations, the quits rate and the layoffs and discharges rate were little changed at 2.2 percent and 1.1 percent, respectively. This release includes estimates of the number and rate of job openings, hires, and separations for the nonfarm sector by industry and by four geographic regions.

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Payrolls Year/Year Growth Dips

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Download chart and data in Excel form. If you would like a self-updating version which will capture future payrolls data, please contact us. Today’s January jobs growth number of 200,000 published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has generally been regarded in the press as strong. This is indeed more than the initially reported December… Read more » Read More

CPI-U Index up 0.1% in December, with 2.1% Annual inflation.

Posted - Filed under Consumer Price Index, Data News.

The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.1 percent
in December on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index rose 2.1 percent
before seasonal adjustment.An increase of 0.4 percent in the shelter index accounted for almost 80 percent
of the 1-month all items increase. The food index rose in December, with the
indexes for food at home and food away from home both increasing. The energy
index, which rose sharply in November, declined in December as the gasoline
index decreased.

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