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JOLTS Job Openings

10:00 ET, monthly · Bureau of Labor Statistics · also called JOLTS

Next release Tuesday, 1 Sep 2026 at 10:00 ET

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey counts open positions, hires, quits and layoffs. Its reference month trails the payrolls report by one, so it describes a labour market one month further back.

Nasdaq 100

Across 2 releases, Nasdaq 100 moved a typical 0.50% from high to low in the thirty minutes after the print. The widest was 0.50%, on 30 Jun 2026. It finished that half hour higher 2 times out of 2.

0.50%
typical swing
first 30 min
0.50%
biggest swing
30 Jun 2026
2 / 0
finished up
vs down
+0.52%-0.52%
release+30 min+60 min

Each line is one release, from 15 minutes before to an hour after, as percent from the last price beforehand. 4 Aug 2026 is the bright one.

Every release we have measured · 2

release5 min after30 min after60 min afterswing, first 30 min
4 Aug 2026+0.07%+0.32%+0.29%0.44%
30 Jun 2026+0.08%+0.15%-0.19%0.50%

S&P 500

Across 2 releases, S&P 500 moved a typical 0.32% from high to low in the thirty minutes after the print. The widest was 0.32%, on 4 Aug 2026. It finished that half hour higher 2 times out of 2. The net move is consistently smaller than the swing — a median of 0.14% against 0.32% of travel — which is what a price that jumps and comes back looks like in numbers.

0.32%
typical swing
first 30 min
0.32%
biggest swing
4 Aug 2026
2 / 0
finished up
vs down
+0.38%-0.38%
release+30 min+60 min

Each line is one release, from 15 minutes before to an hour after, as percent from the last price beforehand. 4 Aug 2026 is the bright one.

Every release we have measured · 2

release5 min after30 min after60 min afterswing, first 30 min
4 Aug 2026+0.07%+0.14%+0.38%0.32%
30 Jun 2026+0.08%+0.08%-0.08%0.23%

How this is measured

The reference price is the last print before the release minute. Every figure on this page is the distance from that price, as a percentage, using one-minute bars. “Swing” is the highest price minus the lowest price in the thirty minutes after the release — not the net change, which is where a price ended up rather than how far it travelled to get there.

Release dates come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics's own published schedule, so an unusual date is a real one rather than a guess from a calendar rule. Prices are Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 index CFDs, which trade around the clock and therefore cover the 08:30 ET releases that land before the equity market opens. They track the futures closely but are not the CME contracts, and the moves are index points.

Past reactions are a record, not a forecast. Nothing here is investment advice.

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