US Job Openings Stop Cooperating, But Quits Hit Three-Year Low

Job vacancies across the world's largest economy rose above nine million for the first time since September, the first of this week's key US labor market data showed. The 9.026 million openings on the last business day of December exceeded every estimate from economists. Consensus expected a drop to 8.75 million. The prior month's reading was revised higher to show an increase from October to November, which means December's jump counted as the second consecutive. Suffice to say the JOLTS h