USD drops as a tepid May Payrolls report eases inflation fears further May payrolls expanded, but not as much as anticipated. Click graphic, get report from BLS. Here's the graphical…
All in the service to playing a game of 'Hide the [inflationary] Cheese'... April’s expected hiring boom goes bust as nonfarm payroll gain falls well short of estimates Here's the…
The predictable snap-back in employment continued in August with 1.4 Million jobs brought back on line and unemployment falling to 8.4%. Click below for the detailed report from BLS. Unemployment…
Sorry folks, but it's all in the bag and according to plan. They are inflating and now with the Nasdaq at its previous all-time highs the good news of the…
You can click this graphic for the detailed November Payrolls report from BLS. Here is where the heavy lifting came from. There is the usual onslaught of services jobs relative…
According to those seers who are paid to usually be wrong, NFP would show +145,000 jobs after a fairly weak 130,000 last month. The employment situation is flat-lining. You can…
Who is surprised that Payrolls rebounded last month? I am not because this is a notoriously volatile economic data point and one bad month (May) does not a trend make.…
The headline says it all (tap for the MarketWatch story)... Full report here at BLS... And here is the graphical breakdown. The last few NFTRH reports have included the word…
I have got a very choppy day and a suspect internet connection, so let's let Anthony at Confounded Interest break out the details... Jobs Friday! 313K Jobs Added [Higher Than…
Ha ha ha, lucky guess per yesterday's 'playing it straight' article... Click the Bloomy headline for full details... The great swami also nailed the Average Hourly Earnings at in essence,…
[edit] With respect to my buzz phrases noted in the next paragraph, a wiseguy reminds me of my old target on HUI (888), AKA the "3 Snowmen". Wouldn't want to…
Non Farm Payrolls printed a negative number for the first time since 2010. Of course the Hurricanes are in there to large degree but still, it's a worse number than…
With the Semiconductor sector below but hailing its all-time highs, a lot of images come to mind; chief among them the 1999-2000 stock market bubble... In early 2013 we noted…
This week's Notes From the Rabbit Hole included a little Payrolls/Wages related economic discussion before moving on to the usual coverage of stock markets, commodities, precious metals, bonds, currencies and…