JOLTS job openings alerts by email

Why this feed exists

Job openings are a labor-demand signal the Fed watches closely, and the openings-per-unemployed-worker ratio has been referenced directly in FOMC communications as a gauge of how tight the labor market really is. JOLTS lands on a fixed monthly schedule from BLS, with a lag versus the jobs report it sits alongside.

What each alert includes

The release headline the moment BLS publishes it, a link to the full report, and a Market read on what the openings and quits data imply about labor-market tightness or cooling, how that could shift Fed rate expectations, and the transmission to yields and rate-sensitive equities.

Between the jobs reports

JOLTS data is dated by the time it prints. It covers a month that's already a few weeks old. What it offers instead is a second, independent read on labor demand between the two closest monthly jobs reports, useful for spotting a cooling or re-tightening trend before it shows up in the headline payrolls number.

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