unemployment rate
The period’s central update was a much weaker-than-expected US jobs report: September payroll growth was 29,000 and unemployment rose to 4.2%, versus expectations around 84,000–89,000 and 4.1%. 4678 Several commentators saw this as labour-market softening that could reduce the likelihood of an October Fed hike, while Michelle Meyer described unemployment as still hovering just above 4% within broadly healthy labour-market conditions. 134 A more bearish minority questioned whether the headline rate captures underlying weakness, focusing on broader underemployment and possible data-quality problems. 12
From the window to Oct 7, 05:30 ET — this window's take is still to be written.
Where the voices land
Nobody took a position this week.
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The stories
- ○ a voice, on the left
- ◌ a voice raising half of these
- ● a subject, on the right, under its story
- ⌒ a line is a voice raising a subject — thicker, more items; colour is the story
The stories this entity travels in: on the right, each story with the subjects seen alongside it; on the left, the voices that raised them, and a line for every subject a voice raised, bundled by story. Tap a voice to light everything it raises, a subject for who raised it, a story for its own lines. The crumb goes back.
Who brings it up
- Walter Bloomberg 1 mention
- The Kobeissi Letter 1 mention
- David Scutt 1 mention
- Josh Linville 1 mention
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