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    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      LFS labour’s lost

      National statistics might have a sampling problem

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      US employment
      Birth, death and BLS

      Minding the NFP/QCEW gap

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      US inflation
      US inflation falls to lowest level in more than a year

      December figures show sixth consecutive month of decline amid Fed tightening

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      US economy
      US inflation resumes rapid rise by accelerating in May

      Consumer prices rose 1% during month and 8.6% from a year ago, adding more pressure on Fed to cool the economy

    • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
      US Treasury bonds
      US 10-year debt yield jumps to 2% after inflation data release

      Milestone breached for first time since 2019 on highest rate of price growth in 40 years

    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      US employment
      Biden declares jobs recovery ‘stronger than ever’ after robust report

      World’s largest economy added 467,000 to payrolls in January

    • Friday, 31 December, 2021
      US employment
      US struggles to measure jobs growth as pandemic distorts labour market data

      Payroll growth estimates revised up by 976,000 jobs in 2021, their highest upward adjustment in a single year

    • Friday, 5 November, 2021
      US employment
      US jobs growth rebounds in October with ‘widespread’ gains

      Employers add 531,000 jobs and unemployment rate drops to 4.6% as Covid concerns ease

    • Friday, 18 September, 2020
      FT AlphavilleLeo Hindery
      Distorted jobs numbers are misguiding stimulus policy

      Leo Hindery spells out the need for politicians to look beyond the official Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers when considering stimulus measures.

    • Sunday, 26 January, 2020
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      A plot twist in Donald Trump’s US growth story

      The president’s ‘roaring geyser’ narrative may be about to run out of steam

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      Mental wellbeing is a critical business issue and we should treat it as one

    • Friday, 17 January, 2020
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      Banning computers from ‘lock-ups’ forces rethink on how markets respond

    • Thursday, 16 January, 2020
      US agency to bar computers from economic data ‘lock-ups’

      Change could have implications for firms reliant on fast access to market-moving data

    • Thursday, 14 November, 2019
      US inflation
      US wholesale inflation falls to slowest annual rate since 2016
    • Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
      US inflation
      US wholesale price inflation climbs to summer high in August

      Producer prices rise at swiftest annual clip since May

    • Thursday, 9 May, 2019
      US inflation
      US producer price growth steady in April

      Wholesale inflation running at joint-quickest pace of 2019

    • Friday, 9 November, 2018
      US inflation
      US wholesale inflation hits quickest monthly pace since 2012
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      FT AlphavilleMacroeconomics
      Manufacturing jobs are better jobs
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      The Big ReadGregory Meyer
      ‘A good living but a rough life’: trucker shortage holds US economy back

      Some 70 per cent of goods are transported by road, but a shortage of drivers and soaring demand could put a brake on growth 

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      Traders speculate about strong employment figures based on president’s morning missive

    • Friday, 4 May, 2018
      Global Economy
      US unemployment rate falls below 3.9% in March

      Wages fail to rise quickly giving Federal Reserve room for further tightening

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      Steady growth is finally lifting incomes after years of stagnation

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      Global Economy
      US jobs surge gives green light to Fed rate rises

      The economy added 313,000 new payrolls in February, but wage growth cooled

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      Global Economy
      Quicker wage growth adds heft to US recovery

      Increase in hourly earnings will cheer Republicans fighting midterm elections

    • Friday, 5 January, 2018
      Global Economy
      US jobs growth slows in December

      Unemployment rate stays at 17-year low and stock market rises to new high

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