by sslifer | Apr 3, 2020 | NumberNomics Notes, Purchasing Managers Index
April 3, 2020 The Institute for Supply Management not only publishes an index of manufacturing activity each month, they publish two days later a survey of non-manufacturing firms — which largely consists of services. The business activity index fell 9.8 points...
by sslifer | Apr 3, 2020 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
April 3, 2020 Private employment declined 713 thousand in March after having risen 242 thousand in March. Given the sharp drop in employment in that month, the National Bureau of Economic Research will probably conclude that the expansion ended in February 2020 and...
by sslifer | Apr 3, 2020 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
April 3, 2020 Payroll employment declined 701 thousand in March after having risen 275 thousand in March. Given the sharp drop in employment in that month, the National Bureau of Economic Research will probably conclude that the expansion ended in February 2020 and...
by sslifer | Apr 3, 2020 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
April 3, 2020 The unemployment rate unexpectedly jumped 0.9% in March from 3.5% to 4.4%. The labor force fell 1,633 thousand in March. Apparently, some of those workers who lost jobs gave up looking for another one because they knew it was unlikely to happen, or...
by sslifer | Apr 3, 2020 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
April 3, 2020 In any given month employers can boost output by either additional hiring or by lengthening the number of hours that their employees work. Payroll employment for March fell 701 thousand as restaurants and bars closed, retail jobs declined, doctors and...
by sslifer | Apr 3, 2020 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes, Reference Charts (By Category)
April 3, 2020 Average hourly earnings rose 0.4% in March to $28.62 after having risen 0.3% in February, During the past year hourly earnings have risen 3.1%. The somewhat surprising increase in hourly earnings in March almost certainly reflects the fact that most...
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