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The consumer price index increased 5.4% from a year ago, the largest jump since just before the financial crisis. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting a 5% gain.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the economy needs to improve more before the central bank will change its ultra-easy monetary policy.

U.S. weekly jobless claims total 360,000, as expected

Initial filings for unemployment insurance totaled 419,000 for the week ended July 17, well above the 350,000 Dow Jones estimate and more than the upwardly revised 368,000 from the previous period, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

First-time filings for benefits dipped to 385,000 for the week ended July 31, a decline of 14,000 from the previous week as the jobs market remains essentially in a holding pattern during the economic recovery. The total hit the Dow Jones estimate exactly.

More on jobless claims: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/05/us-j...estimates.html

Payrolls increase 943,000 in July as unemployment rate slides to 5.4%

Consumer price index rises 5.3% year over year in August vs 5.4% estimate

Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady, says tapering of bond buying coming ‘soon’
a majority of members now see the first rate hike happening in 2022. In June, when members last released their economic projections, a slight majority put that increase into 2023.

The committee now sees GDP rising just 5.9% this year, compared to a 7% forecast in June. However, 2023 growth is now set at 3.8%, compared to 3.3% previously, and 2.5% in 2023, up one-tenth of a percentage point.

U.S. weekly jobless claims total 351,000 topping 320,000 estimate

October jobs report: Payrolls grew by 531,000 as unemployment rate fell to 4.6%


Source: Yahoo! Finance

U.S. employers increased their pace of hiring in October after a sluggish September, with declining COVID-19 infections and demand for workers amid widespread shortages helping bolster labor market activity.

The Labor Department released its October jobs report Friday morning. Here were the main metrics from the report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg:

Non-farm payrolls were expected to show the biggest jump in a single month since July. Though payrolls have grown in every month so far in 2021, the economy remains about 5 million jobs short of its pre-pandemic levels following plunges in employment between March and April of 2020. And the civilian labor force was still down by about 3.1 million individuals compared to February 2020 as of September.

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/octob...180531280.html