Markets are expecting NFP report to show 188k job growth in September. Unemployment rate is expected to drop 0.1% to 3.8%. Wage growth will again be a major focus. Average hourly earnings are expected to rise 0.3% mom.
Related pre-NFP job data were generally solid. ADP report showed 230k growth in private sector jobs, well above exceptiones. ISM manufacturing employment rose 0.3 to 58.8. ISM non-manufacturing was jumped notably by 5.7 to 62.4, which is very impressive. Initial jobless claims and continuing claims hit multi decade record lows.
So overall, we’d expect NFP to give a set of decent to strong data. The main question is how fast wage growth has been. Meanwhile, the reaction in forex markets is not that straight forward. We’ll have to see how treasury yield and stocks respond to the data at the same time.
Here are some other NFP previews:
