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* UBS expects Fed rate cuts in 2024 as policy-sensitive 2-year yield eases recently:

Demand for holiday hiring has fallen, raising a possible warning for overall labor market, reports The Wall Street Journal. “The peak season holiday hiring is nothing like it had been in previous years,” says Brian Devine, chief executive of Columbus, Ohio-based warehouse-staffing agency Ignite Industrial Professionals. “A lot of companies did strong seasonal hiring a year ago, then they did everything they possibly could to retain those employees,” notes Curt Long, chief economist at the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions. “It’s a very different picture this year.”