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Trump doubles down, insists jobs data was rigged against him  Axios After Trump’s Firing of BLS Commissioner, Republicans Fall in Line With His Criticism  The New York Times Facing facts about Trump and the jobs numbers  The Hill Amy Walter and Jasmine Wright on Trump’s BLS firing and trust in institutions  PBS Fact check: Trump’s claims jobless numbers were ‘rigged’  ABC News Source link

Immigration Federal agencies Donald Trump Immigration politics See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link The Trump administration is apprehending hundreds of immigrants every day across the country – but there’s a stark split in where Immigration and Customs Enforcement makes those arrests in blue states and red states. In states that voted for President Donald Trump, ICE agents are far …

Stocks rise on Fed rate cut hopes after disappointing jobs data  Reuters Asian shares track rally on Wall Street that won back most of Friday’s wipeout  Yahoo Finance Asia-Pacific stocks mostly close higher as investors weigh tariffs, OPEC+ output hike  CNBC Emerging Currencies Rebound as Jobs Data Spur Dollar Weakness  Bloomberg Asia stocks climb tracking Wall Street’s rebound; RBI decision looms  Investing.com Source link

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the coronavirus surged during President Donald Trump’s first term, he called for a simple fix: Limit the amount of testing so the deadly outbreak looked less severe. When he lost the 2020 election, he had a ready-made reason: The vote count was fraudulent. And on Friday, when the July jobs report revisions showed a distressed economy, …

Stocks rise on Fed rate cut hopes after disappointing jobs data  Reuters Stocks Advance on Fed Rate-Cut Bets, Dip Buying: Markets Wrap  Bloomberg.com Emerging Markets Assets Gain as Traders Bet on Fed Rate Cuts  Yahoo Finance Asian shares track rally on Wall Street that won back most of Friday’s wipeout  The Hill Asia-Pacific stocks mostly close higher as investors weigh tariffs, OPEC+ output hike  CNBC …

Tesla’s brand loyalty levels dropped from the best in the industry to fairly middling results, according to new data from S&P Global Mobility, and it’s all because of the company’s CEO, Elon Musk. S&P Global Mobility tracks sales data across the automotive industry, and its new customer loyalty numbers are out, shared with Reuters this morning. The numbers show a …

Electricity costs rise amid data center boom  Axios How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power  The Economist Which states have rising electricity costs? See map  USA Today Beware the AI industrial complex | Op-Ed  The Seattle Times Rise in electricity prices hitting Ohioans, picking supplier can be tricky  Toledo Blade Source link

Until Friday, analysts had little confidence that the U.S. Federal Reserve was about to deliver an interest rate cut, but last week’s revisions to labor market data have led many to bet in favor of Jerome Powell cutting at the Fed’s next meeting in September. On Friday the Labor Department reported payrolls grew by just 73,000 last month, well below …

Big Tech’s race toward a future built on AI is speeding up. On quarterly earnings calls with investors last week, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta all announced massive increases in their infrastructure spending plans for the year as the AI boom accelerates. Amazon signaled it will blow past its initial $100 billion capex target, Google announced a $10 billion capex …

Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled one of his simmering resentments: the statistician overseeing the tabulation of the monthly figures was appointed by former President Joe Biden. Unlike Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, whom Trump has been criticizing for months, the president …