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The Jobs Report and the August Curse: Jobs Day Guide
Wage growth, jobless rate on the edge of "full employment" also on economists' and policy makers' radars
El-Erian: Jobs Data May Be Fed's Rate Tiebreaker
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The stakes couldn't be higher for the August employment report, even though the month has typically been cursed by disappointment.
For Federal Reserve officials, who are trying to gauge the U.S. economy's prospects as they consider raising interest rates in less than two weeks, have already been thrown a curve ball — global economic malaise and reeling financial markets.