Job Growth Disappoints with Public Sector Gains as Private Jobs Fall  Only 12,000 jobs were created this month, and all were in the public sector, with private payrolls dropping by 28,000. This brings up questions about the role that hurricanes might have played in these numbers. Admittedly, this falls outside my expertise on non-farm payrolls...

US Payrolls Miss Expectations: Job Growth Slows Sharply in July  We speculated on just how dire the payroll numbers might be, and this morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered the news. In July, the U.S. added only 114,000 jobs, significantly below the anticipated 175,000 and a sharp decline from June's downwardly revised figure of 179...

US Job Growth Plunges: Biggest Miss Since 2021  Prior to today's release of the payrolls report, our earlier analysis anticipated a slowdown, questioning its magnitude. We also speculated whether Yellen had disclosed a weaker figure to Japan before their interventions this week, aiming to avoid unnecessary capital loss. The Bureau of Labor Sta...