USA & Canada Intelligence Brief — Friday, September 4, 2026
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Key Facts
The beat. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 162,000 in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, roughly three times the 53,000-to-56,000 gain forecasters expected, and the same release revised July from a reported loss of 23,000 jobs to a gain of 21,000.
The blame. Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that American negotiators’ “our way or the highway” positions “no longer seem to be there,” a day after Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC that Canada’s governing Liberals are using the trade dispute for “political leverage.”
