{"id":73811,"date":"2025-02-07T14:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/finance\/us-economy-created-143000-jobs-in-january\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:27:32","slug":"us-economy-created-143000-jobs-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=73811","title":{"rendered":"US economy created 143,000 jobs in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=d5448c63-b1f8-4713-a049-1e516d220597\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The US economy created 143,000 jobs in January, falling short of forecasts, but a drop in the unemployment rate and robust gains in earnings underscored the strength of America\u2019s labour market.<\/p>\n<p>While January\u2019s figure undershot expectations in a Reuters poll of 170,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics also revised up the bumper figure for December, from 256,000 to 307,000.<\/p>\n<p>Economists and traders highlighted a decline in the unemployment rate to 4 per cent in January, down from 4.1 per cent the previous month, which they said bolstered the Federal Reserve\u2019s case to proceed slowly with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/us-interest-rates\" data-trackable=\"link\">interest rate<\/a> cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s jobs data came just over a week after the Fed kept rates on hold at 4.25 to 4.5 per cent, despite pressure from US President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/donald-trump\" data-trackable=\"link\">Donald Trump<\/a> to lower borrowing costs.<\/p>\n<p>Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG US, said the fall in unemployment \u2014 and increased participation in the labour market \u2014 provided \u201cmore reason for the Fed to feel comfortable\u201d in its decision to slow the pace of rate cuts this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n-content-layout\" data-component=\"flourish\" data-component-id=\"21518615\" data-component-type=\"flourish-in-article\">\n<figure class=\"n-content-picture n-content-layout__container\"><a href=\"#21518615\"><picture data-asset-type=\"flourish\" data-flourish-id=\"21518615\" data-flourish-type=\"visualisation\">\n<div id=\"21518615\" class=\"cp-message o-message o-message--inform o-message--notice\" data-o-component=\"o-message\">\n<div class=\"o-message__container\">\n<div class=\"o-message__content\">\n<p class=\"o-message__content-main\">Some content could not load. Check your internet connection or browser settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.flourish.studio%2Fvisualisation%2F21518615%2Fthumbnail%3FcacheBuster%3D966076?source=cp-content-pipeline&amp;fit=scale-down&amp;quality=highest&amp;width=1020&amp;dpr=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Average hourly earnings also increased 4.1 per cent over the past 12 months, which economists took as a sign of the persistent health of the US labour market.<\/p>\n<p>Markets expect the next Fed rate cut to arrive by July, with a 60 per cent chance of another by the end of the year, down from 70 per cent before the jobs report. <\/p>\n<p>The two-year Treasury yield, which tracks interest rate expectations and moves inversely to price, rose 0.06 percentage points to 4.26 per cent, while the 10-year yield added 0.04 percentage points to 4.48 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Stock futures extended small declines, with contracts tracking the S&amp;P 500 down 0.2 per cent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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