Stronger jobs report sends rates up a bit. Here’s all the numbers.
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Inside January’s BLS Jobs Report
The Super Bowl gets thousands of hours of analysis whereas the jobs report mostly gets headlines of jobs created and the unemployment rate. Here’s an attempt to balance it out.
Why Rates Didn’t Rise Despite Better Jobs Report
European contagion concerns still outweighing better U.S. economic data. Result: rates stay low as MBS remain safe haven.
Inside December’s BLS Jobs Report
The average newspaper has 10 times more analysis of a football game than it does of the jobs market. Here’s an attempt to balance it out.
Rates Hold After Unemployment Drops But Job Creation Questionable (CHARTS)
Rates resilient once again, and look to end week up just slightly on improving economic news.
Jobs Report Not as Rosy as It May Appear
We should pay attention to the labor participation rate not the unemployment rate because labor participation drives the economy.
Rates Benefit From Weak Jobs Report (CHARTS)
Rates are down today—regaining some of yesterday’s rise and ending the week near record lows—after this morning’s BLS report showed the economy added 80k non-farm payrolls in October. Plus September was revised from 103,000 to 158,000 new jobs created and August was revised from 57,000 to 104,000. This figure doesn’t count actual people, it counts [...]
Fundamentals 11/4: Unemployment Down By Year-End?
BLS Jobs – Non-Farm jobs for October were +80,000. – Unemployment rate was 9.0%. Down from 9.1% – Average workweek was 34.3 hours – unchanged – Average Hourly Earnings was +0.2%. -Details: Private Jobs were +104,000. Public Jobs were -24,000. This will continue as state and local government continue to shed weight. I want to [...]
Hallmark Capitalizes On Unemployment
Friday is the big Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report for October. Markets expect 88k-100k new jobs created in October and unemployment to hold at 9.1%. Through September, the economy added 1.074m jobs or 119k/mo, but there are still 6.6m fewer jobs than the beginning of the recession in December 2007. But don’t worry, someone’s [...]
Fundamentals 10/7: Era Of Diminished Expectations
BLS Employment Situation Report shows +103,00 new nonfarm payrolls for September and moves August from flat to +57,000 and move July gains up as well. For the past 3 months there were +287,000 jobs. We need about +140,000 jobs/month to keep pace with population growth and maintain the same ratio of those employed/total population. Since [...]
