This was a reassuring close to a year of reassuring jobs numbers. This was also our final major gut-check before the full swing of the holiday shopping season, and these numbers should be viewed as a ...
Jobs & Labor
The September Employment Situation – Fall Fear Relieved
A bad string of manufacturing numbers reignited recessionary fears this week, but the growth of 136,000 jobs in September this morning serves as a timely reminder that a recession is not a foregone ...
Jobs and Interest Rate Cuts
This morning underscored why we saw two dissenting voices at the Fed meeting on Wednesday; no matter which way you look at it – employment numbers, unemployment rate, wage growth – the labor market ...
March 2019 – Nationwide Job Numbers, A Dream for Spring
Independent of the ongoing debate about whether the Fed overreached on the pace of their interest rate increases, this morning’s March employment numbers are a great bump heading into the spring. The ...