<div id="readability-page-1">Shares of industrial and transportation companies were more or less flat, amid concerns about a more drastic than anticipated economic slowdown. U.S. job openings fell to their lowest levels in more than three years, returning to prepandemic levels in the latest sign of weakening in the labor market. The U.S. international trade deficit widened 7.9% in July to $78.8 billion from a revised $73 billion in the prior month, the Commerce Department said. Manufacturing activity declined and home sales softened in most parts of the country over the past six weeks, according to the Federal Reserve's latest Beige Book survey. In one promising sign, orders for U.S. manufactured goods rose 5% in July after two straight monthly declines. SpaceX has moved to evacuate employees from Brazil and warned others against traveling to the country, a sign of how Elon Musk's ongoing battle against Brazil's highest court over his social-media company X is spilling out to affect some of his other businesses. Volvo Car abandoned its target of having a fully electric lineup by the end of the decade, saying it was still likely to sell some hybrid models as the market faces an increasingly bumpy transition to electric vehicles. The warning echoed Volkswagen's report of financial duress from the transition to electric vehicles. Write to Rob Curran at rob.curran@dowjones.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires09-04-24 1727ET</div>

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工業和運輸公司的股票在人們擔心經濟顯著放緩的情況下保持穩定。美國的職位空缺已降至三年多來的最低水平。貿易逆差在 7 月擴大了 7.9%，製造業活動和房屋銷售出現下滑。值得一提的是，美國製造業商品訂單在 7 月增長了 5%。此外，SpaceX 因法律問題正在撤離巴西的員工，而沃爾沃汽車放棄了完全電動車型的目標，稱在向電動汽車過渡過程中面臨挑戰

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