US NFP reduces the odds of Fed taper getting underway by Q42021 – Goldman Sachs
|Friday’s huge disappointment from US employment details for April, mainly from the headlines Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP), helps analysts at Goldman Sachs to expect no tapering from the US Federal Reserve (Fed) by the end of 2021.
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The banker blames, “unusually generous unemployment benefits and lingering virus-related impediments to working,” as the key reasons behind the latest US jobs report debacle.
“Job gains and declines in the unemployment rate are likely to be less front-loaded than we had previously thought,” added Goldman.
Even so, analysts at the US-based investment bank said, “We continue to expect the FOMC to start tapering early next year.”
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