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Mortgage rates fall as labor market normalizes

Housing Wire

For now, we can say the labor market isn’t tight anymore, but it’s also not breaking. The four-week moving average declined slightly by 750, to 212,250 Below is an explanation of how we got here with the labor market, which all started during COVID-19. Jobless claims show an expanding economy that has not lost jobs yet.

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Dovish Jobs Report Indicates Slowing Labor Market

Appraisal Buzz

Job gains occurred in health care, in social assistance, and in transportation and warehousing – but it appears the labor market is losing velocity. The labor market remains in good shape, and this report is not indicative of a recessionary labor market, but it is indicative of a slowing labor market.

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Are we seeing cracks in the labor market?

Housing Wire

Here are my three key points on the labor market recovery since I retired my COVID-19 recovery model on Dec. Employment continued growing in government, health care, social assistance, and construction, while transportation and warehousing lost jobs. Does this mean the labor market is breaking? 9, 2020: 1. percent, the U.S.

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Is the market pivoting ahead of the Fed?

Housing Wire

The honey badger labor market is still going strong as we got another solid jobs report Friday, which pushed bond yields higher at first. This will be important to think about going into 2023, especially if the labor market does what the Federal Reserve wants it to do, which is slow down enough to create a job loss recession.

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U.S. hiring slowed in April, missing estimates

Housing Wire

Job gains were most notable in health care (+56,000), in social assistance(+31,000), and in transportation and warehousing (+22,000). The Federal Reserve ’s Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) maintained its short-term interest rate steady at a range of 5.25% to 5.5% A slowing labor market can be both good and bad for the U.S.

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Jobs data shows the truth about the labor market

Housing Wire

today should be between 158 million and 159 million , or in a weaker labor market growth scenario, between 157 million and 158 million. Now let’s look at the labor market on all fronts from the data we got this week to get a comprehensive view of the labor market today. From the St.

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Strong jobs report suggests rate cuts won’t come ‘til summer

Housing Wire

Though all signs point to a cooling labor market overall, the economy picked up another 275,000 jobs in February. The jobs report on Friday is unlikely to convince the Fed that rate cuts are necessary when the Federal Open Markets Committee meets later this month, economists said.