US: Temporary employment, a decent leading indicator, drops for the first time since 2016 - NBF
|According to National Bank of Canada’s analysts, Krishen Rangasamy, there are reasons for the Federal Reserve to be cautious and remain in pause mode for a while. He notes that temporary employment dropped for the first time since 2016.
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“Based on the stock market rally this morning, investors seem to have been encouraged by a consensus-topping U.S. establishment survey, the latter showing solid increases in March for non-farm payrolls, particularly in services-producing industries. That’s not to say all is rosy in the U.S. labour market. With declines during the month, both manufacturing and temporary employment had their worst quarter since 2016.”
“Temporary employment ─ which, like the yield curve, is a decent leading indicator ─ even registered a quarterly decline in Q1. The other report, the household survey, showed a large drop in employment driven by cuts in full-time positions. And with full-timers often better remunerated than part-timers, one should not be too surprised by the moderation in wage inflation, the latter dropping in March to 3.2% on a year-on-year basis. The only reason the unemployment rate managed to stay unchanged at 3.8% (despite sizable job losses in the household survey) was the drop in labour force participation.”
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