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US DATA: Q4 nonfarm productivity and unit labor costs numbers are 
unavailable due to the delay of GDP data from the Commerce Department. 
They will be available in later releases when the missing data from 
Commerce are released. 
- Hours worked growth, which they were able to compile, was +1.6% in Q4 
after +1.7% Q3.
- Nonfarm productivity for Q3 was revised down slightly to +2.2% from 
prev +2.3%, while ULC was unrevised from +0.9%.    
- Q4 manufacturing productivity +1.3% after +1.1% in Q3 with output 
growth +2.3% and hours worked growth +1.0%. Manufacturing unit labor 
costs were not reported.
- Q3 nonfarm productivity unrev at +1.3% y/y, while ULC unrev at +0.9% 
y/y.

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