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MNI UK Labour Market Review: Emerging evidence of wage peak?

  • The question we asked ahead of the UK labour market data was whether private sector wage growth was near a peak, and overall we think that overall there was something for everyone in the labour market report published yesterday.
  • In pretty much every aspect, the labour market remains tight but that tightness continues to ease.
  • The doves can point towards the easing and potential peaks of private sector wage data, the continuing rise in the unemployment rate and the rise in the vacancy-to-unemployment ratio.
  • While the hawks can continue to point to uncomfortably high levels of wage data and a level of unemployment still around NAIRU the (if not below given the wage dynamics).
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