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For weekend reading, Gary Alexander, senior writer at Navellier & Associates, offers the following commentary: Last week, the ritual event happened. The stock market waited with grim anticipation for the September jobs report, since the first Friday of every month brings us the new unemployment data, focusing on two headline numbers – the total “new hires” (specifically, non-farm payroll growth) for the last month, and the new “unemployment rate,” both of which impact the market greatly. Q3 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Find A Qualified Financial AdvisorEach advisor has been ve...
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Payrolls rose by 428k, a little firmer than consensus and offsetting the net 39k downward revision to the previous months.Unemployment remained at 3.6%, a fall in household employment offset by a drop in the labor supply. We expect unemployment to edge lower in May.Q1 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Earnings growth rose by just 0.3% on the month, but the monthly pace has been volatile and subject to revision – there is no obvious trend deceleration here yet.The Fed will require more material signs of labor market easing from here before it relents from aggressive tightening and w...
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Unemployment in the U.S. dropped to 3.8% while the economy added 678,000 in February —the largest number since summer 2021. The recovery of the travel and restaurant industries was one key driver as Omicron cases saw a significant decline. Q4 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Unemployment RecoveryAs reported by USA Today, employers in the U.S. added 678,000 jobs in February as revealed by the jobs report, giving new hope in the fight against soaring inflation. The number beats a Bloomberg poll in which economists predicted 400,000. The number means that the unemployment rate droppe...
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Equity markets are moving cautiously higher on Tuesday, as investors await the plethora of central bank decisions in the coming days that could shape how we end the year. Q3 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Omicron has clearly added a huge cloud of uncertainty over the outlook for the economy in the coming months just as many countries were preparing for tighter monetary policy. Investors have appeared far more relaxed than politicians when it comes to the new variant which makes me a little nervous, as booster efforts are doubled in the run-up to Christmas. The question this week...
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In hisDaily Market Notes report to investors, while commenting on fighting inflation, Louis Navellier wrote: Q3 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Disappointing Jobs ReportThe big surprise this week was that the Labor Department reported on Friday that only 210,000 payroll jobs were created in November, which was a massive disappointment since economists were expecting 550,000 payroll jobs. However, due to a shrinking workforce, the unemployment rate declined to 4.2% in November. The October and September payroll reports were revised up to 546,000 and 379,000, respectively. Interest...
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“The FTSE 100 has got that Friday feeling, soaring to a 21 month high late morning as the repercussions from the surprise Bank of England decision to leave interest rates unchanged reverberated on financial markets. The continued sell off of sterling which hit its lowest level against the dollar in more than a month, is partly behind the rise in the blue chip index. Multinationals listed earn big chunks of revenues overseas, so benefit from the pound’s lower value. But the financial markets are also hooked on the drug of cheap money, so the news that the drip won’t be immediately withdrawn in ...
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In hisDaily Market Notes report to investors, while commenting on Louis Navellier wrote: Q3 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Relief RallyThe Wall of Worry about the Fed finally turning down the fire hose of their massive Quantitative Easing has turned into a relief rally with back-to-back new all-time highs in all the major stock indexes, even the Russell. Today, the interest rates for the 10 and 30-year US Treasuries actually fell. The central bank surprise was that the Bank of England, which was projected to raise rates 15 basis points, instead held firm. That may have been beca...
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American families are feeling the pressure from increased prices as worker shortages hobble supply chains and businesses. Massive federal spending will only make things worse. Q3 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more WASHINGTON, D.C. —This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that only 194,000 jobs were added in September, as the labor market struggles to recover despite schools having reopened for in-person learning and government disincentives to work having come to an end. The overall unemployment rate fell 0.4 percentage points to 4.8%, as jobs growth fell far below ex...
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Bond yields dropped slightly downward to 1.299% in early trading on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond tilted down to 1.909%, as yields move in the opposite direction to prices. Q2 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Bond YieldsAs reported by CNBC, “The labor market is in focus ahead of the August jobs report which will play a major part in determining when and how the Federal Reserve will start unwinding its bond program.” A Dow Jones poll among expert economists predicts that 750,000 jobs were created in August, sending the unemployment rate...
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April’s US Employment Report Badly Misses Market Consensus Expectations Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Jeoff Hall, Managing Economist, Refinitiv IFR continues: A Series Of Disappointments“The April Employment Situation Report was a series of disappointments and IFR Markets assigns it a grade of C-minus. Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 266,000 in April, badly missing the market consensus expectation of a 978k advance. Only three of the top 10 forecasters in the Reuters weekly economist poll had NFP growth estimates of below one million, but none were below 850k. The r...
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