SECURITIES

Help-Wanted Ads Fall Again: Help-wanted advertising volume in newspapers shrank again in August, suggesting that employer demand for workers is weakening further, a business research group said. The Conference Board’s monthly help-wanted advertising index, regarded as a barometer of labor market conditions, fell to a seasonally adjusted 91 from 92 in July and 96 in June. That puts the index 36 points below the year-earlier figure.