It’s getting a lot harder to get hired — but there’s at least one silver lining to the weakening job market. The number of layoffs in the U.S. remained low in July, according to a Wednesday report from the Labor Department. Layoffs were relatively unchanged at 1.8 million, and at lower levels than they were in the last few months of 2019.

U.S. stocks finished slightly down in choppy trading on Wednesday following labor market data and comments from a Federal Reserve official that bolster the case for an interest rate cut. Labor Department data showed that U.

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