The recovery continues, but we’re losing some momentum

Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 3:01 p.m.

There were 1.8 million jobs added last month, 200,000 more than economists expected. The numbers aren’t quite as positive if you dig deeper. Plus, the Trump administration’s many messages to China on Thursday, including a plan to either audit Chinese companies on U.S. stock exchanges or delist them, and executive orders against TikTok and WeChat. And, Trump reinstates a tariff on Canadian aluminum, a month after a new trade deal between the two countries went into effect.