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We've made it to the first Friday in the month of October.

It's the final day of the trading week, October 3rd. I'm Julie Morgan.

Jobs data is stuck in shutdown limbo.

Apple pulls an immigration app and rare earth is seeing

rare gains. If the Bureau of Labor Statistics were issuing its September employment situation

report today, economists were expecting a headline payrolls number, rebounding some from August,

but significantly weaker than a year ago.

The unemployment rate expected to stay at 4.3%.

CNN reported on Thursday that the BLS has collected its September labor data and is likely

ready to be made public.

That makes sense as the shutdown came just a few days before the

report was due to be released. Data is generally collected the calendar week that contains the 12th of

the month. An economist at Indeed Hiring Lab describes the current labor market as stagnant.

Alison Srivastava said the employment data is incredibly important, especially in an economy

that is very much low fire, low higher, and we're really looking to any kind of indication

of the direction that we're headed in.

There are some private sources of data that can supplement the government data. For example, she's

looking at the Indeed job postings data. Srivastava said she's looking at sector-level job

postings to give an indication of how health care is doing versus all other sectors.

Recently, health care has been a main engine of job creation. More than half of the jobs have

been in the health care and social services sectors. The economist said the headline numbers for

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