Delayed U.S. Jobs Data Due
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:28.2 | among real estate professionals. Here is your morning brief for Tuesday, December 16th. I'm Luke |
| 0:36.2 | Vargas for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:38.5 | Some of the most important economic data to be delayed by the government shutdown is due this |
| 0:44.0 | morning with the release of the October and November jobs reports. But it's not a complete picture, |
| 0:49.6 | because for the first time in nearly 80 years, the October unemployment rate is missing. |
| 0:55.3 | Economists, polled by the Wall Street Journal, expect the U.S. added 45,000 jobs last month, |
| 1:00.8 | while the unemployment rate likely ticked up to 4.5%. |
| 1:04.8 | The report is due at 8.30 a.m. Eastern. |
| 1:08.3 | President Trump is suing the BBC for defamation over the British broadcaster's |
| 1:13.2 | edit of his speech before the January 6th, 2021 Capitol Riot. At issue is a documentary aired by |
| 1:19.8 | news program Panorama in the run-up to the 2024 U.S. election that combined two sections of |
| 1:26.1 | Trump's remarks, and according to Trump, |
| 1:28.3 | omitted his statement calling on supporters to march peacefully to the Capitol. |
| 1:32.9 | The suit filed in a federal court in Florida seeks $10 billion in damages. |
| 1:38.9 | And PayPal wants to form a bank. |
| 1:41.3 | The digital payments company has applied to establish a Utah chartered |
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