{"id":437312,"date":"2026-09-01T21:04:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/jolts-job-openings-7-271m-vs-7-300m-estimate-437312\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T21:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:04:48","slug":"jolts-job-openings-7-271m-vs-7-300m-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/jolts-job-openings-7-271m-vs-7-300m-estimate-437312\/","title":{"rendered":"JOLTs job openings 7.271M vs 7.300M estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior month 7.182 million<\/li>\n<li>JOLTs job openings for July 7.271M vs 7.300M estimate.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details from the\u00a0Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Job openings: Little changed at 7.3 million in July, with the openings rate steady at 4.4%. Durable goods manufacturing openings increased by 76,000.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nHires: Little changed at 5.1 million, with a hiring rate of 3.2%. Professional and business services hiring fell by 188,000, a softer detail.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nTotal separations: Little changed at 5.1 million, with a rate of 3.2%. No significant changes across industries.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nQuits: Little changed at 3.1 million, with the quits rate at 1.9%. Quits in other services declined by 46,000. Workers showed no increased willingness or ability to leave their jobs.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nLayoffs and discharges: Little changed at 1.7 million, with a rate of 1.0%. Finance and insurance layoffs declined by 22,000.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nOther separations: Essentially unchanged at 350,000, including retirements and other departures.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, the report was broadly steady, with a few softer details. Hiring and quits showed no pickup, and the decline in professional and business services hiring stood out as a weakness. However, layoffs remained stable, providing no indication of an acceleration in job cuts. The labor market is holding its ground rather than gaining momentum. <\/p>\n<p>The US jobs report will be announced on Friday at 8:30 AM ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior month 7.182 million JOLTs job openings for July 7.271M vs 7.300M estimate.\u00a0 Details from the\u00a0Bureau of Labor Statistics Job openings: Little changed at 7.3 million in July, with the openings rate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}