With the announcements that job openings have fallen to their lowest level in three years and that gross domestic product rose at a 2.8 percent annual rate, economists remain divided on what it all means as they await a potentially subdued jobs report this Friday.
“This is an extremely noisy period in data being whipped around,” Bankrate.com senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick told The Epoch Times. “The JOLTS report is just another data point at a time when we’ve been through several months of concerns.”