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Tomorrow’s US jobs report will determine the immediate fate of the reflation rally. Goldman has more.

We estimate nonfarm payrolls rose by 225k in May (mom sa), a slowdown from the +428k pace in both of the previous two months and below consensus of+323k. Job growth tends to slow during the spring hiring season when the labor market is tight—particularly in May before the arrival of the youth summer workforce—and all four Big Data employment indicators we track suggest a below-consensus report. Job postings data also indicate a sequential decline in labor demand, albeit to still very high levels. On the positive side, the May seasonal factors have evolved favorably in recent years and represent a tailwind of roughly 100k, in our view.

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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.