job openings in the us are at the lowest level in two years. on the last day ofjune, the us labor department reported 9.852 millionjob openings that s a drop of 3a,ooo from the month before. this apparent labour market resilience suggests the federal reserve could keep rates higher for longer. nasa says it has received a signal from a distant spacecraft it accidentally severed contact with. the american space agency had lost communication with its voyager 2 probe after it mistakenly sent it the wrong command. now two weeks later the space agency says contact, albeit limited, has now been re established. the signal came through during a regular scan of the sky. given that the space craft is almost 20 billion kilometres, or more than 12 billion miles, away, that signal will have taken around 18 hours to reach earth. nasa says the news confirms voyager 2 is still broadcasting and is in good health. the probe has been floating in space since 1977 when it was launched to study the outer