Will the Iran war slow U.S. hiring? Economists say risks are rising. [Yahoo! Finance]
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Consumer goods giant Unilever, which owns brands such as Dove and Vaseline, told CBS News on Tuesday that it's hitting the brakes on hiring amid an unstable economic backdrop . In a memo obtained by Reuters , a Unilever executive pointed to "macroeconomic and geopolitical realities, especially in the Middle East conflict" as the reason for the company's three-month hiring freeze. Even before the Iran war began, the U.S. hiring rate had slowed, with the February Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey hitting its lowest level since 2020. Employers across the U.S. shed 92,000 jobs in February, a sharp and unexpected setback in a labor market marked by anemic job growth during the past year as businesses grappled with tariffs and economic uncertainty. "We're in a period of uncertainty, much like in 2025 with tariffs," Oxford Economics senior U.S. economist Matthew Martin told CBS News. "Companies weren't sure what the policy, what their cost structure was going to be, which led them
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