Analyzing The Labor Market

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Good morning! Here are the latest trending news heading into the weekend:
Pay pushback: A group of Tesla (TSLA) shareholders and state officials called on investors to reject CEO Elon Musk’s $1T pay plan. Separately, Tesla’s Q3 deliveries report wins praise.
Big AI bet: Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) will invest $4B in Arkansas to build a new data center, powered by Entergy (ETR), on more than 1,000 acres in West Memphis.
ICEBlock pulled: Apple (AAPL) removed the app ICEBlock, which enabled users to monitor and report the location of immigration enforcement officers, after government pressure.
Slowdown?
The U.S. federal government shutdown has delayed the release of key economic reports, including the non-farms payrolls report for September that was due today. As a result, market participants turned to alternative data sources to gauge the state of the labor market.
The data: Allison Shrivastava, economist at Indeed Hiring Lab, describes the current labor market as