Friday, September 5, 2014

NFP and the US interest rates

The Non-Farm Payrolls report for today came out worse than expected. The market was waiting for a reading of 226 thousand new jobs being created in the United States for the month of August, but the number came out at 142 thousand new jobs created. However, the unemployment rate dropped a little bit to 6.1%.

The weak NFP report has made investors think that the Federal Reserve will not raise its interest rates as soon as it was expected. Many analysts believe that the FED will now take a longer time before raising its interest rates, but we must take into consideration that the US economy is still in a sustainable expansion and in the long run the FED will have to raise its interest rates eventually.

For now the Dollar retraces a little bit versus its major counterparts, but this could just be a small retracement and for next week we may see more gains on the greenback.


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