Ugly Jobs Report: August Payrolls Miss, Slide To 156K; Hourly Earnings Also Disappoint
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sep 1, 2017
We warned readers yesterday to “Prepare For Disappointment” with today’s jobs report, and sure enough that’s precisely what we got when moments ago the BLS reported that in August just 156K jobs were created, a big miss to the 180K expected, and following a sharp downward revision to June and July, which were revised to 210K and 189K, respectively, a 41K drop combined.
But don’t worry, the worse, the better as the more disappointing the economic data, the less likely the Fed will hike in September, December, or ever for that matter. And keep in mind, today’s data did not include the Harvey devastation, which will assure no rate hikes from the Fed for months, if not decades to come.
Not helping matters – for the economy, if not the stock market which now once again loves bad data – was the Household Survey, according to which the number of employed Americans declined by 74,000 to 153,439K. On an annual basis, the increase in the employment level dropped to 1.2%, the lowest since March.
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