January NFP +151K, Unemployment 4.9%

The February jobs report is out. Last month, the U.S. economy created 151,000 net new jobs. That’s not very strong. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.9%. That’s an eight-year low.

NFP growth has gradually decelerated for the last year.

Posted by on February 5th, 2016 at 8:30 am


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