Good morning and welcome to AS USA's live financial blog! It's a new work week and we will be awaiting the  Consumer Price Index report that will come out on Thursday for the latest inflation update . Latest figures from the Labor Department show that  187,000 jobs were added in July , while the  unemployment rate went down to 3.5% . Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called Fitch Ratings'  downgrade of the main US credit rating  "entirely unwarranted" because it  ignored the country's economic strength .

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