JOLTS Job openings decline to 7.6 million in December vs. 8 million forecast
The number of job openings on the last business day of December stood at 7.6 million, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) on Tuesday. This reading followed the 8.09 million (revised from 8.15 million) openings announced in November and came in below the market expectation…