6 May 2016
US nonfarm payrolls likely to print a below-market 175k gain – Deutsche Bank
Research Team at Deutsche Bank, suggests that the current consensus forecast for US nonfarm payrolls is for a 200k print this afternoon although it’s interesting to see that the range of forecasts are from as low as 160k to as high as 315k.
Key Quotes
“Our US economists are sitting at the lower end of that range and are forecasting for a below-market 175k gain. This is based on their view that upon closer inspection of the sectors responsible for job growth last quarter, the details reveal that retail trade has accounted for a disproportionate share of these gains (in the fact the pace of which is the fastest since 1994).
They expect the pace of hiring in this sector to moderate somewhat closer to its 12-month average this month. As well as this, temp hiring, which has historically been a leading indicator of payroll growth, has declined over the same period and so these trends together contribute to their below-consensus forecast.
As usual we’ll also receive the other important details of the April employment report including average hourly earnings (market expecting +0.3% mom and +2.4% yoy), labour force participation rate (expected to be 63.0%) and the unemployment rate (expected to nudge down one-tenth to 4.9%). All of this data is due out this afternoon at 1.30pm BST so all eyes on then.”
Key Quotes
“Our US economists are sitting at the lower end of that range and are forecasting for a below-market 175k gain. This is based on their view that upon closer inspection of the sectors responsible for job growth last quarter, the details reveal that retail trade has accounted for a disproportionate share of these gains (in the fact the pace of which is the fastest since 1994).
They expect the pace of hiring in this sector to moderate somewhat closer to its 12-month average this month. As well as this, temp hiring, which has historically been a leading indicator of payroll growth, has declined over the same period and so these trends together contribute to their below-consensus forecast.
As usual we’ll also receive the other important details of the April employment report including average hourly earnings (market expecting +0.3% mom and +2.4% yoy), labour force participation rate (expected to be 63.0%) and the unemployment rate (expected to nudge down one-tenth to 4.9%). All of this data is due out this afternoon at 1.30pm BST so all eyes on then.”