We have 7 million, 443,000, which is a
big drop from 8,040,000 in the prior month. Now
, these are September numbers, of course, they're
a month behind the overall jobs numbers. The separations
numbers which include the quits layoffs, discharges, et
cetera. Uh total operations unchanged by uh down about
326,000. Still 5.2 million. The uh quits rate
is what I'm looking for here. The number of
quits changing little it says, but the quits rate
unchanged at 1.9% doesn't uh tell a lot about what's
going on. Um Interesting thing here, although some
of my lines disappeared from this, but basically,
this is jolts and consumer confidence which uh apparently hasn't
come through yet. But the consumer confidence numbers uh
when they uh show up which I've got now,
um consumer confidence tends to go up uh and consumer
uh and jolts tends to go down uh during these
uh political seasons. The consumer confidence index rises to
108 point 7-Up from 99.2. In September present situation
increases by 14 point to uh 14 points to 138
. And the expectations index is at uh 89.1.
Well above the conference board says the threshold of 80
that usually signals a recession ahead. So it looks
at this point like uh Americans all of a sudden
have gotten uh more confident about the economy.