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October Employment Preview: Hurricane Payback Should Help Bring +225K Private Jobs Gain

posted by Michael Lewis on November 01, 2018

Found in US, categorized in Macro

Tags: employment labor market

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Hurricane payback. Hurricane Florence struck during the September jobs survey week. State-level data indicate that the storm reduced payroll employment in the Carolinas by about -50K jobs.

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FMI’s Preview of Friday’s October Employment report including our review of 18Q3 Productivity & Labor Costs and the latest Weekly Initial UI Claims & Rail Traffic data. 

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Mike Lewis founded Free Market Inc. (FMI) in 1982 as a full-service economic consulting firm, providing insights and in-depth data analysis primarily for institutional money managers and corporate planning directors.

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