STIR: Fed Pricing Fades From Knee-Jerk Dovish Extremes After Soft CPI

Dec-18 13:48

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US DATA: Weekly ADP Sees Another Decline Heading Into November

Nov-18 13:42
  • The ADP NER Pulse reports -2.5k private sector jobs lost over the four weeks to Nov 1 on a week-on-week basis.
  • It follows a downward revised -14.25k (-11.25k) in the previous week to Oct 25 and 4.75k (6.25k previously) in the week to Oct 18.
  • Whilst not as weak as last week’s surprisingly soft estimate, it still points to a resumption of a rolling over in jobs growth after the 42k increase in the official monthly report for October had fared a little better than expected after a sizeable decline in September.
  • Note the chart below shows on a crude monthly basis to show how it's changed vs the last published monthly figures.
  • Once again, ADP warns that “These numbers are preliminary and could change as new data is added."
  • Note also that ADP first published this figure at another new link today: https://www.adpresearch.com/job-growth-is-sluggish-but-new-hires-are-on-the-upswing-how/
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