Previewing US jobs

Friday 8 March 2019

On Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for February. The consensus is for an increase of 178,000 non-farm payroll jobs in February, and for the unemployment rate to decline to 3.9%.

Last month, the BLS reported 304,000 jobs added in January.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.