In the United States, non-farm payrolls added 73,000 jobs in July, with the unemployment rate standing at 4.2%, up 0.1 percentage points from the previous month. Compared with the average monthly increase of over 140,000 jobs in previous months, the above figures were far lower than the general market expectations, which immediately triggered fluctuations in the U.S. financial markets.Moreover, the U.S. Department of Labor sharply revised down the employment data for May and June: non-farm payrolls added in May were revised down from 144,000 to 19,000, and those in June were revised down from 147,000 to 14,000. The Washington Post…