
What happened? On Monday, February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees recognizing the sovereignty of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics…
In May, more American staff members voluntarily left their jobs, as government data revealed on Tuesday. That’s a definite sign of confidence in the labor market, which market experts tell will spur wage surge in the nearer future.
The Labor Department informed that the number of employees leaving positions of their own free will tacked on 212,000 to 3.3 million.
It lifted the job quits rate 1/10 of a percentage point to about 2.4%, which is the highest outcome since April 2001.
Apparently, the soar in the quits rate that policymakers as well as market experts consider to be a gauge of job market confidence, drives hopes that wage leaps will speed up in 2018.
Wage inflation has been still mild notwithstanding tightening labor market conditions. As for annual wage surge, as measured by average hourly earnings, it has struggled to overleap 3%, soaring 2.7% in June.
Labor market strength as well as steadily soaring inflation probably keep the key US financial institution on course to have interest rates lifted again in August. In June, the Fed ramped up borrowing costs for a second time in 2018 and predicted two more rate lifts by the end of this year.
Staff members voluntarily leaving their positions in May were mainly concentrated in the health care, finance, social assistance, utilities, finance, insurance, transportation as well as warehousing industries.
According to the JOLTS report, there were up to 6.6 million unfilled positions at the end of May in contrast with the record outcome of 6.8 million vacancies in April. As for job openings, they’re still elevated and keep suggesting a shortage of skilled employees, with the labor market near or even at full employment.
The hires rate managed to ascend 1/10 of a percentage point to about 3.9%. That’s the highest value since March 2007.
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Last week was very interesting for the markets, as we saw the releases of the US Inflation and Disney’s earnings report. So let's see what we should await this week!
The United States will publish the Federal Open Market Committee Meeting Minutes on November 24, at 21:00 GMT+2.
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis will publish Core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) on May 27 at 15:30 GMT+3.
The United States will publish the Preliminary GDP on Thursday, May 26, at 15:30 GMT+3.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand will publish a monetary policy report and make an update on the interest rate on May 25, at 05:00 GMT+3.
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