{"id":47488,"date":"2023-07-07T20:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youtrading.com\/en\/?p=47488"},"modified":"2023-07-07T20:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:22:55","slug":"market-wrap-soft-nfp-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youtrading.com\/en\/market-wrap-soft-nfp-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Wrap &#8211; Soft NFP Number"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"47488\" class=\"elementor elementor-47488\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fe6d946 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fe6d946\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e4abdfa\" data-id=\"e4abdfa\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ce97ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ce97ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>The United States economy added 209,000 jobs in June 2023, following a downwardly revised 306,000 in May, and below market forecasts of 225,000. The labour force participation rate was unchanged at 62.6 percent, remaining at its highest level since March 2020.<\/p><p>It is the lowest reading since December of 2020, but remaining more than twice the 70,000-100,000 needed per month to keep up with growth in the working-age population.<\/p><p>Employment increased mostly in government (60K), namely local government (32K); health care (41K), mostly hospitals (15K), nursing and residential care facilities (12K); social assistance (24K); construction (23K); professional and business services (21K); and leisure and hospitality (21K).<\/p><p>Employment in leisure and hospitality remains below its February 2020 level by 369K. Meanwhile, employment fell in retail trade (-11K) and transportation and warehousing (-7K) and changed little for mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction, and manufacturing.<\/p><p>Nonfarm employment has grown by an average of 278,000 per month over the first 6 months of 2023, lower than the average of 399,000 per month in 2022.<\/p><p>The unemployment rate in the US decreased slightly to 3.6 percent in June 2023, which is lower than May&#8217;s seven-month high of 3.7 percent and in line with market expectations.<\/p><p>The jobless rate has fluctuated between 3.4 percent and 3.7 percent since March 2022, indicating a consistently tight labour market and allowing the Federal Reserve the flexibility to continue raising interest rates as a means to combat inflation.<\/p><p>The number of unemployed people decreased by 140 thousand to 5.96 million and employment levels rose by 273 thousand to 160.99 million. The so-called U-6 unemployment rate, which also includes people who want to work, but have given up searching and those working part-time because they cannot find full-time employment, rose to 6.9 percent in June from 6.7 percent in May.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States economy added 209,000 jobs in June 2023, following a downwardly revised 306,000 in May, and below market forecasts of 225,000. The labour force participation rate was unchanged at 62.6 percent, remaining at its highest level since March 2020. 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