Strong jobs number dashes recession fears and shows Fed it does not need to move on rates [CNBC]
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Strong jobs number dashes recession fears and shows Fed it does not need to move on rates March's jobs growth The better-than-expected March payrolls, combined with February's revised but still shockingly low 33,000 jobs and January's above trend 312,000, brings the three-month average to a healthy 180,000 jobs per month. That is lower than the 223,000 in 2018, but in line with a solid labor market in a growing economy. Economists had been expecting 175,000 jobs for March. The unemployment rate remained at 3.8% as expected. One source of weakness in the report was the lower-than-expected wage gain of just 0.1%, following February's stronger than expected gain of 0.4%. Overall, however, the March employment report has become the latest in a series of better data this week, including stronger home sales and a pickup in ISM manufacturing activity. Recession fears have been fading as economists have been nudging up their expectations for GDP growth, with some seeing over 2% in the first q
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