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MNI US Employment Insight, Nov'23: Sharper Than Expected Cooling Sees Cuts In Focus

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

  • Nonfarm payrolls growth was a little softer than expected in October, but with a larger miss for private payrolls and with large two month downward revisions.
  • AHE growth surprised lower, offset by sizeable upward revisions but with an unexpected decline in average hours worked back to recent lows.
  • Further, a particularly large decline in household employment saw the unemployment rate surprisingly rise further to 3.9%, with multiple analysts noting the step closer to trigger Claudia Sahm’s recession rule.
  • Additional rate hikes are now seen with an extremely high bar (just a cumulative 3bp priced for the next two meetings) with circa 100bps of cuts priced for 2024 from 84bps before the data.
  • This should set the major macro tone until CPI on Nov 14, but first the SLOOS on Nov 6 which some expect to be notably weak after Chair Powell leaned dovish at the FOMC press conference on Nov 1.

PLEASE FIND THE FULL REPORT HERE:

USEmploymentReportNov2023.pdf


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