Hurricane Harvey is going to make it harder to gauge the US jobs market

Reuters/Nick Oxford The Bureau of Labor Statistics stressed Friday that Hurricane Harvey had "no discern able effect" on the August jobs report.It had conducted the survey for the report during the week of the 12th, before the storm made landfall in Texas. But the economic impact of what could be the costlieststorm in US history is set to start showing up soon. "It's going to be more difficult in the next two months to gauge the jobs market," said CarlTannenbaum, the chief economist at Northern ...