Coming up Friday morning US time on 5 October 2018, sept September NFP
ICYMI, earlier:
- Goldman Sachs US Nonfarm payroll preview
- US nonfarm payroll data due Friday 5 October 2018 - preview
This now via Barclays on what to expect:
- For the Sep. employment report (Fri.), we expect total nonfarm payrolls to rise 200k (cons.: 188k; last: 201k) and private payrolls to increase 195k (cons.: 185k; last: 204k), respectively.
- We and the consensus look for the unemployment rate to decline one-tenth to 3.8% (last: 3.9%)
- and average weekly hours to remain steady at 34.5.
- We and the consensus forecast average hourly earnings will rise by 0.2% m/m (cons.: 0.3% m/m; last: 0.4% m/m).
