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Strategies & Market Trends : Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mishedlo who wrote (11048)	8/26/2004 10:23:16 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Respond to of 116555

Help Wanted Index falls again conference-board.org August 26, 2004 The Conference Board’s Help-Wanted Advertising Index – a key barometer of America's job market – dipped one point in July. The Index now stands at 37, down from 38 the previous month. The Index was 38 one year ago. In the last three months, help-wanted advertising declined in six of the nine U.S. regions. Declines occurred in the West North Central (-7.2%), South Atlantic (-6.1%), East North Central (-4.9%), East South Central (-4.1%), Middle Atlantic (-2.1%) and Pacific (-2.0%) regions. Increases occurred in the Mountain (6.1%), West South Central (1.9%) and New England (0.1%) regions. <MORE>