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Thanks for being here. I'm Mary Long joined today by Tim Byers Tim.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me, Mary, fully caffeinated, ready to go.

Same, also got my coffee, ready to go.

We're going to start today looking at some jobs data and then

zoom into something to company reports that are a bit more specific. There's a few

different pieces of jobs data that are out this week. Yesterday the Bureau of

Labor Statistics reported that July

saw the lowest number of job opening since January 2021. Today payroll processing

firm ADP put out a report that corroborated a lot of that data.

There's another jobs report coming out tomorrow.

Lots of numbers, Tim.

How should investors be thinking about these, if at all?

I mean, I'm going to be honest, I do not think about these numbers at all in terms of investing

theses but it does seem to me that it's an interesting labor market and that it might be a little bit tighter than we expected.

So that's kind of fascinating, especially with all of the layoffs we've seen in tech tech so I find that somewhat surprising but

also somewhat encouraging I mean maybe you have people who are landing back on on

their feet what I hope is not the case is that those people have not landed on their feet and

just employers have stopped hiring. That would be much more problematic. So I don't know which

it is, Mary,

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