📉US500 plunges after US jobs data💥

NFP well above forecasts

Highly anticipated NFP report was released at 1:30 pm GMT and showed the US economy unexpectedly added 263 k jobs in November, compared to 261k increase in October and well above market expectations of 200k. It is the lowest job gain since April last year, as the labour market is normalizing after the pandemic shock. Still, it continues to signal a healthy and tight market, above the pre-pandemic average of 150K-200K jobs created per month. Notable job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality, health care, and government while employment declined in retail trade and in transportation and warehousing. Monthly job growth has averaged 392K thus far in 2022, compared with 562K per month in 2021. Notable job gains occurred in leisure and hospitality (88K), including a gain of 62K in food services and drinking places; health care (45K); and government (42K), mostly in local government (32K). In contrast, employment declined in retail trade (-30K), namely general merchandise stores (-32K), electronics and appliance stores (-4K), and furniture stores (-3K); and in transportation and warehousing (-15K). Monthly job growth has averaged 392K thus far in 2022, compared with 562K per month in 2021.

The jobless rate remained unchanged at  3.7%, in line withmarket estimates.  The jobless rate has been in a narrow range of 3.5% to 3.7% since March, suggesting that the tight labor market will likely continue to contribute to inflationary pressure in the world's largest economy for some time to come. The number of unemployed persons rose by 48 thousand to 6.01 million in November, while the number of employed decreased by 138 thousand to 158.5 million.

Closely watched wage growth rose to 5.10% YoY, after an upwardly revised 4.9% increase in October and above analysts' expectations of a 4.6% YoY.

Source: XTB, Macrobond

Today's reading signals that the labour market is still tight and Fed will most likely remain committed to bringing down inflation with more rate hikes, however a lot will depend from US inflation reading which will be published on December 13.

US500  failed ot break above long-term downward trendline and is heading towards major support at 4000 pts. Source: xStation5