{"id":139,"date":"2019-02-02T13:50:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T13:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2019-02-09T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T13:51:52","slug":"non-farm-payrolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/02\/non-farm-payrolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Farm Payrolls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The jobs report\u2019s main message was that labour market tightness continued to persist in January. <\/strong>Non-farm payrolls rose 304,000, while unemployment rate slightly ticked up, by 0.1 ppt to 4%, as labour force participation rate rose to 63.2% &#8211; the highest reading since August 2013. As a result of the tight labour market conditions, nominal wage growth hit 3.5% YoY.<br><em>Although the unemployment rate rose to 4%, counter intuitively,\u00a0its good news. It is a sign that the labour market has been improving in a more broad-based manner than before: previously inactive people (i.e. unemployed people, who were not officially registered as job searchers) re-joined the market and are actively seeking employment. <\/em><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jobs report\u2019s main message was that labour market tightness continued to persist in January. Non-farm payrolls rose 304,000, while unemployment rate slightly ticked up, by 0.1 ppt to 4%, as labour force participation rate rose to 63.2% &#8211; the highest reading since August 2013. As a result of the tight labour market conditions, nominal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/02\/non-farm-payrolls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Non-Farm Payrolls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unbiasedfinancialgroup.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}