The U.S. labor market data were eagerly awaited by investors today.
The number of new jobs created outside U.S. agriculture surprisingly fell to 199,000 in December from 210,000 the previous month. Analysts had expected the increase to be twice as high. Nevertheless, the unemployment rate fell surprisingly sharply. At the same time, wages rose by 0.6 percent instead of the expected 0.4 percent. For this reason, investors are now speculating that the Fed will raise the key interest rate four times this year instead of three times as previously expected.
The S&P 500 is currently 0.5 percent lower than the previous day at 4680.2 dollars.
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