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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The number of open jobs in the United States rose in July after three months of declines, a sign that employers are still urgently seeking workers despite聽a weakening economy聽and聽high inflation.The increase that the government聽reported Tuesday聽will be a disappointment for Federal Reserve officials, who are seeking to cool hiring and the economy by raising short-term interest rates to try to slow borrow
stanley cup ing and spending, which tend to fuel inflation. Fed officials hope that their policies will serve primarily to reduce job openings and spare workers the pain of widespread layoffs and higher unemployment.There were 11.2 million open jobs available on the last day of July 鈥?nearly two jobs, on average, for
stanley cup every unemployed person 鈥?up from 11 million in June. June figure was also revised sharply higher. 8
stanley cup 220;The Fed has made very little progress in terms of narrowing the gap between labor supply and demand, Aneta Markowska, chief economist at investment bank Jefferies, wrote in a research note.Reducing the high demand for workers to a level closer to the available supply would ease the pressure on companies to pay higher wages to attract and keep workers. Higher pay has been passed on by many businesses to consumers in the form of higher prices, thereby intensifying inflation.Last month, job openings rose in retail, warehousing and shipping, professional services, and in state and local education. Openings declined in manufacturing and health car Ogua House Republicans Release Details of Last-Minute Budget Deal
WASHINGTON 鈥?Initial attempts to download information from the flight data and voice recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month have been unsuccessful, according to a U.S. official.The recorders are being flown to the offices of the French aviation accident investigati
asics on bureau near Paris, which has better equipment for extracting the information than is available in Egypt, the official said.The official was not authorized to publicly discuss developments in the investigation and spoke on condi
stanley cup tion of anonymity.The recorders, also known as black boxes, were extensively damage
stanley cup d when EgyptAir Flight 804 traveling from Paris to Cairo plunged into the sea on May 16, killing all 66 people on board.French and U.S. investigators have overseen the effort to extract information from the recorders. The recorders are made by Honeywell, a U.S. company. The plane, an Airbus A320, is made by an aircraft maker based in France.The black box memory units typically provide investigators with critical data, including the pilots ; conversations, details about how the plane engines, navigation systems, and auto-pilot were working, and even information about smoke alarms.The pilots made no distress call before the crash, and no group has claimed to have brought down the aircraft. Left: The data and voice recorders from EgyptAir flight MS804 were ex
