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- JOLTS: job openings, quits and what labor turnover reveals How the BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey defines openings, hires, quits and layoffs, how the rates are computed, and what openings and quits show since 2001.
- Producer Price Index (PPI): final demand, pipeline prices and CPI What the Producer Price Index measures, how the final demand index is built, how PPI differs from CPI, and whether producer prices lead consumer prices.
- The CPI report: how BLS builds it and how to read it How the Consumer Price Index is built (basket, weights, shelter and owners’ equivalent rent), what headline and core mean, and how to read m/m and y/y changes.
- The jobs report: how to read nonfarm payrolls and the two surveys How the monthly Employment Situation report is built, why payrolls and the unemployment rate come from different surveys, how revisions work and how to read a release.
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