Fed to defer rise after jobs disappoint

09 October 2015

 

US employers added 142,000 jobs in September, below market estimates of 200,000, according to the US Labor Department. The unemployment remained steady at 5.1%, the lowest rate since March 2008, but it would have been higher had the participation rate not fallen by 0.2% to 62.4%. August numbers were revised down from 173,000 to 136,000 and July’s numbers were also revised down from 245,000 to 223,000. NAB's David de Garis...

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