July NFP +209,000

The government reported this morning that the U.S. economy created 209,000 net new jobs last month. This was actually below Wall Street’s estimate of 230,000. Still, this is the sixth month in a row that we’ve cleared 200K.

The NFP number for June was revised higher by 10,000, and May’s was revised upward by 15,000. The unemployment rate ticked up to 6.2%.

Posted by on August 1st, 2014 at 11:29 am


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