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Economy Adds 531,000 Jobs in October; Unemployment Falls to 4.6 Percent
The rise in the index of aggregate hours since July is equivalent to adding 498,000 private sector jobs a month
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Preview: What to Look for in the October Jobs Report
Continuing strength in the labor market; the unemployment rate fell sharply in the last two months, and wages are rising rapidly.
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Core Inflation Still Moderate, But Rent Increases Are Grounds for Concern
The overall picture is still transitory with the overall CPI up 0.4 percent, and the core just 0.2 percent.
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PREVIEW: What to Look for in the September Consumer Price Index
We should expect a rise in the core index of around 0.3 percent.
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Mixed Jobs Report: Economy Adds Just 194,000 Jobs, but Unemployment Falls to 4.8 Percent
The index of aggregate hours rose 0.9 in September, the largest rise since March.
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Preview: What to Look for in the September Jobs Report
It seems likely that we are on a slower employment growth path than in the spring and early summer. Job growth is likely to be in the 300,000 to 400,000 range.
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Inflation Moderates in August, Core CPI Up Just 0.1 Percent
One-time declines held down inflation in August, but will likely get back to around a 2.5 percent rate in the core. When supply constraints relax, lower car prices will dampen inflation.
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PREVIEW: What to Look for in the August Consumer Price Index
The core index is likely to show the same 0.3 percent rise as in July, with the overall CPI likely pushed somewhat higher by rising food prices.
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Economy Adds 235,000 Jobs in August; Unemployment Falls to 5.2 Percent
The average hourly wage for production and nonsupervisory workers in leisure and hospitality grew at a 23.7 percent annual rate in the last three months compared with the prior three.
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Preview: What to Look for in August Jobs Report
Given the sharp drop in the number of unemployed workers on temporary layoff, and the unusually high share of long-term unemployment, we are likely to see job growth closer to 500,000 than the extraordinary pace of the last three months.
