US unemployment rate

The biggest event this week for traders is going to be the release of the US Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP), expected at 8:30 EST (14:30 CET). NFP is something of a shorthand for the raft of monthly unemployment data that is released all at the…
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Summary: Payrolls rose 148,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis in December 2017 October and November payrolls revised down by net 9000 jobs S. unemployment rate steady for the third month at 4.1% Average hourly earnings rises…
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The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the monthly payrolls report for August. Coming off the recent private sector hiring published by the ADP, the markets were slightly disappointing. According to official data, nonfarm payrolls rose…
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The much-anticipated payrolls report for the month of July came with a lot of positives. The data helped the US dollar to recover from the strong losses that have been mounting. In a week that saw the ISM’s manufacturing and…
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Brushing aside the disappointment of March, the US economy was seen adding 211,000 jobs in the month of April beating consensus estimates by a strong margin. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the unemployment rate in the…
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