Bloomberg Surveillance · Friday, August 7, 2026
The US economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July, a significant miss compared to the anticipated addition of 80,000 jobs. This figure is a sharp contrast to the 57,000 jobs added in June, indicating a potential slowdown.
“And the July jobs report crossing the Bloomberg terminal right now, and it shows is that the US economy actually lost twenty three thousand jobs in the month of July.”
“This is a lot less than the eighty thousand we were expecting to be added.”
“We added fifty seven thousand in the month of June.”