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Ugly JOLTs Report Hints At Another Negative Payrolls Print On Friday
Ugly JOLTs Report Hints At Another Negative Payrolls Print On Friday
After five straight months of JOLTS beats, including two blowout prints for April and May and zero misses since 2025, last month's JOLTS report was a surprising miss (despite the previously discussed surge in government job openings). Fast forward to today when the latest JOLTS report made it two misses for two, with the BLS announcing moments ago that in July, the US had 7.271 million job openings, up from a downward revised 7.182 million...
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Authored by Patrick Feeley via Substack,
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Iran Calls MoU Deal A 'US Defeat' As Trump Touts Tehran Forced Into 'Very Big Concessions'
Iran Calls MoU Deal A 'US Defeat' As Trump Touts Tehran Forced Into 'Very Big Concessions'
Summary
Trump Hits Back, Seeks Narrative Control: "The war is going very well. As you know, we're winning by a lot. Iran is making very big concessions."
Iran Declares MoU A US Defeat: Tehran says the Islamabad agreement proves Washington abandoned its pressure campaign.
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