Fed's Hammack: Today's jobs report reaffirms that the jobs market is roughly in balance
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The Fed's Hammack is a hawk so her highlighting today's jobs report isn't a big surprise but it's notable as a sign of which way the wind is blowing on Fed policy. She wrote: The Federal Reserve’s inflation objective is 2 percent.That number isn’t just theoretical; price stabilit
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Top of the Morning: April Jobs Report, Q1 GDP, & the week ahead
The desk interprets the recent U.S. jobs report and GDP data as signaling a well-balanced labor market, which could support the Fed's cautious approach to monetary policy. Per the full note from UBS, the creation of 177,000 jobs in April surpassed expectations, although downward revisions of prior data temper this optimism. With the unemployment rate steady at 4.2% and job openings closely matching unemployed workers at 7.19 million, the labor market remains robust but controlled, which may influence the Fed's future rate decisions.