Labor-Market, Inflation Concerns Persist

The job market continues to sputter even as cost and price pressures persist, a Federal Reserve report found, underscoring the competing risks central bank officials will have to weigh at a key meeting in December.

- By Matt GrossMAN

Employers showed little appetite for hiring, which fell in half of the Fed’s 12 regional districts, while the recently ended federal government shutdown and artificial intelligence also weighed on job seekers’ prospects, according to the “beige bo