US private employers added 176,000 jobs in August, nearly matching economists’ expectations for the month, a report by a payrolls processor showed on Thursday.
Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast the ADP National Employment Report would show a gain of 180,000 jobs. July’s private payrolls gains were revised to 198,000 from the previously reported 200,000.
The report is jointly developed with Moody’s Analytics.
The ADP data comes one day before the US government’s report on August non-farm payrolls, which investors will scour in hopes of divining the Federal Reserve’s future for its massive asset-buying program.
The Fed is now weighing when to pull back on its purchases of $85bn per month in Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities.
Views that the Fed could slow its buying pace as soon as its September 17-18 meeting sent Treasury yields to two-year highs recently.
via The Guardian
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trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.
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