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The December Jobs Report Is Out. Here's What It Means for the Next Fed Meeting
The December jobs report came in lighter than expected, but a lower unemployment rate is likely to encourage the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates unchanged when it meets later this month. Still, market participants are hopeful for at least two rate cuts this year. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), nonfarm payrolls rose by 50,000 in December, falling short of economists' estimates for the creation of roughly 55,000 new jobs. The figures for October were revised down by 68,000, from -105,000 to -173,000, while jobs growth for November was lowered by 8,000, from +64,000 to +56,000. The revisions ... (full story)
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Both total nonfarm payroll employment (+50,000) and the unemployment rate (4.4 percent) changed little in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in food services and drinking places, health care, and social assistance. Retail trade lost jobs. This news release presents statistics from two monthly ...
From zerohedge.com | Jan 9, 2026
Ahead of today's jobs report, expectations were that the NFP number would show another rebound from the terrible Sept/Oct prints, but remain muted (or else spark fears about reheating and an end to the Fed's easing cycle). Well, that's precisely what we got moments ago when the BLS reported that in December the US gained 50K jobs, a modest miss to estimates ...
The federal government will release December’s unemployment rate and payroll changes Friday morning, helping to make sense of a cooling labor market that has flashed some mixed signals this week. A Bloomberg survey of economists estimates a median gain of 70,000 jobs in the final jobs report for 2025 and an unemployment rate of 4.5% after November’s data ...
