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US January Employment: Strong Start Out of the Gate
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The employment report for January was broadly encouraging. Nonfarm payrolls doubled the Bloomberg consensus forecast of 65K for January, helping to push the three-month average pace of job growth to 73K, its strongest pace since last February. The unemployment rate fell by one-tenth to 4.3%, putting back to where it was in August 2025 before the FOMC cut rates at its three subsequent meetings. Revisions to job growth over 2024 and early 2025 were sharply negative, but these changes were well-telegraphed in the previously released QCEW data. The more recent pace of job growth was less impacted by the slew of revisions ... (full story)
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Feb 11, 2026 1:32pm
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