After 2:30 pm, the long-awaited US labor market report came out, showing mixed readings. The market in the first moment seems to have reacted to the publication with a weakening of the dollar and a rise in stock index contracts.
The U.S. Labor Department reported that non-farm sectors added 315,000 new jobs in August against a market consensus of 300,000 the smallest increase in new jobs in the U.S. economy since April 2021. The data for July, on the other hand, was revised slightly downward from 528,000 to 526,000. Last month's significant job gains were noted in professional and business services (68,000), which includes computer systems design and related services, healthcare (48,000) and retail trade (44,000). Manufacturing added 22,000 jobs, and leisure and hospitality added 31,000.
The BLS report shows that the U.S. unemployment rate rose to 3.7% in August 2022, the highest since February. The market consensus was for an unemployment rate of 3.5%. It seems that it was the rise in the unemployment rate to its highest level since March 2022 that the market may have reacted to. Investors in the interest rate market, according to Bloomberg, reduced bets on a quick interest rate hike by the Fed, which could have been reflected in the dollar, gold, stock indexes or cryptocurrencies.
The U.S. labor market saw a slowdown in hourly earnings growth, to 0.3% for the month, from 0.5% in July, which may be the right direction for the Fed, but wages could still grow faster than policymakers would like. Wage growth is still a possible inflationary pressure, hence it seems that the next important publication may be the one on the change in price level, and it will be announced on September 13th.
Following the release of the US data, the rate of the main EUR/USD pair seems to have risen above parity. Gold, on the other hand, is trying to turn back from under the $1,700 level to $1,705, and bitcoin is oscillating in the $203 region. ETH, on the other hand, is holding in the region of $1,600 before 15:00 GMT+3.
Daniel Kostecki, Director of the Polish branch of Conotoxia Ltd. (Conotoxia investment service)
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