Weekly Market Recap – September 8, 2025

Early each month, the BLS releases a slew of labor market indicators that are scrutinized by investors. The most prominent is the Employment Situation (“Jobs”)Report, which recently showed the U.S. economy added just 22k payroll jobs in August. Although crucial, its data are volatile and subject to large revisions, and revisions scheduled for later this week could reveal that ~875k fewer payroll jobs were created during the 12 months ended March 2025 than initially reported. This serves as a reminder that signals from any single data point can be murky. Instead, investors should use the broader basket of indicators to inform their view of the labor market.