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Summary In another sign of weakness for the job market, the total number of employed persons in the United States fell, month over month, in October. The decline in total employed was driven by a fall in full-time workers. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, disposab...

Summary Total nonfarm payrolls posted a 261,000 gain in October versus a 315,000 rise in September (revised up by 52,000), while August had an increase of 292,000 (revised down by 23,000). Excluding the government sector, private payrolls posted a gain of 233,000 in October follow...

Summary This morning’s employment report also has a number of hands. At the surface, the report was better than expected coming in ahead of expectations (261K vs 193K). While job growth in the US economy has consistently surpassed expectations this year, it is important to ...

Summary This week will be massive for markets as investors closely watch to see how inflation moderates. In addition to the inflation report and the midterm election, traders will also closely monitor the preliminary University of Michigan Survey. A quiet week as far as upper-...

Summary In early October, the near-term outlook for the US business cycle looked mildly grim, and output was forecast to turn slightly negative starting in November. The relatively firmer activity was picked up by revised forward estimates of the ETI and EMI in the Oct. 30 update ...

Summary Yesterday, the statement released by the FOMC saw the first sign of a less-hawkish tone since this rate hike cycle began in early 2022. Jerome Powell, the FED chair, rolled back the hope of a slowdown. He acknowledged that inflation has not come down, even though supply ch...

Summary The global manufacturing PMI survey's Output Index signalled a third successive monthly drop in worldwide factory production in October. Of the 31 economies for which S&P Global PMI data are available for October, some 21 reported falling production, which was also the...

Summary It's time to talk about jobs, as we just got the October non-farm payroll report after we got job openings earlier this week. The jobs report was strong enough to keep the Fed from becoming dovish. However, cracks are starting to appear as we could be in for weakness down ...

Summary In the week ending October 29, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 217,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the previous week's revised level. The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate unchanged from the previous week's unrevised rat was ...

Summary Bullish sentiment gained 4 percentage points for the third weekly increase in a row. Relative to the moves in bearish sentiment, those gains to bulls are outright modest. Given the massive drop in bearishness, the bull-bear spread has experienced a massive reversal. ...