Treasury yields rose on Friday after closely watched jobs report
showed strong jobs gains but a muted wages number
Not exact matches
«Overall, a report
showing strong job growth, a falling unemployment rate, and steady wage
gains should be mildly hawkish for markets and supportive of continued but gradual Fed rate hikes, keeping a June hike well priced above 90 per cent,» TD said.
Investors had been interested in how the Bank of Canada would characterize the labour market after data on Friday
showed a much
stronger - than - expected
jobs gain in November.
The comptroller's report
shows that the Capital Region saw the
strongest job growth over the seven year period, with the Finger Lakes (including the Rochester area), coming in with the second - biggest
gain in total employment, up about 9,500
jobs.
As low - wage
jobs continue to
show strong gains since the recession, findings from the Low - Wage Workers» Health Project led by Upstate Medical University is offering insight into how these
jobs affect public health and the economy in Syracuse, N.Y., and reflect national trends in issues related to low - wage workers.
But it also unrepentantly underscores the state's big challenges: Massachusetts lags far behind the world's highest - performing nations, many of which are pulling farther ahead; other nations and other U.S. states have
shown stronger recent
gains; too few Massachusetts high school graduates are prepared for college - level work; and other U.S. states have done a better
job of closing the achievement gap.
December's
jobs report was unambiguously
strong showing employment
gains of 53,700 (0.3 %), the result of
gains in full - time work.
Most industries have been reporting
job expansion in 2012 with manufacturing; education / health services; and trade, transportation and utilities
showing the
strongest percentage
job gains.
«Millennials
showed especially
strong increases in
job confidence and income
gains — a necessary precursor for increased housing demand from first - time homebuyers.»
The recent July
jobs report
showing the
strongest nonfarm payroll
gain in five months should help to ease consumers» fear that the economic expansion is faltering.