There's been a sense of complacency in the market all week. It's very difficult to read too much into this week's activity given the condition we're in right now. The morning's unemployment number wasn't encouraging. It shows the economic recovery is not very strong.
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The longer the oil prices stay at this level, the more of a weight it puts on the market. That said, unemployment claims reflect the current strength of the economy. But the perception is that the current strength cannot be sustained with oil prices at these levels. As a result, the market is having a hard time making much progress to the upside.
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That ain't bad. In our humble forecasting, we've been predicting a gradual decrease in unemployment. Business executives have been reporting to us they feel as though their region is coming out of a slow-growth business environment. It's not rampant optimism, but for the fi rst time in a number of years, executives from every corner of the state are showing more optimism for growth.
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The rise of unemployment claims in June, largely due to a fallout of the since-settled General Motors strike, drove most of the decline in the leading index.
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I am looking for a 25-basis-point increase in the federal funds rate. The primary reason is because the unemployment rate has moved to a low level, and that low unemployment rate is starting to push the growth of wages higher. That is an early warning sign.
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As a result, 2006 probably will see only a modest pick-up in economic growth, rising unemployment and, with public spending still growing quite rapidly, another overshoot in the fiscal deficit.
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The unemployment rate is low, the labor force is growing, and the aerospace and defense sectors have been hiring at a pretty good pace.
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At the end of the day, I think the payrolls and the unemployment numbers today are fairly ho-hum. It's another post in the firm economy.
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4.5 is not a bad unemployment rate.
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There are probably some seasonal-adjustment issues creating the big drop in unemployment and the big gain in employment between December and January.
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While the unemployment rate is declining, it might be more exaggerated than the reality.
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I will tell you right off the bat, I believe the (unemployment) decline is a little exaggerated.
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I expect employment to increase, but I also expect the unemployment rate to remain pretty high. We'll get [the rate lower], but it will take time.
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We're looking for increases in employment, but because the labor force is growing 1 percent a year, we need 125,000 new jobs per month to stabilize the unemployment rate. We see the unemployment rate drifting slightly higher and lingering higher for the next year.
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The downward trend in unemployment rates for metro areas throughout our state continues to indicate an improving labor market.
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We're basically just seeing a little follow-on from Friday's unemployment report. The dollar has been stronger due to the interest rate outlook.
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Oregon has a lot of in-migration, which helps to keep the unemployment rate (higher).
This is an area that has performed better than the national economy for quite a while now. We have one of the highest per capita income numbers. We have some of the lowest unemployment numbers. People have jobs and are basically happy and are able to buy things. If they have a lot of money they need banking services.
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What's striking is that there's no improvement in terms of optimism in public opinion, instead there's a post-referendum depression. People are worried about jobs and their purchasing power. Unemployment needs to fall for six months in a row for people to take that on board.
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It may seem strange to foreigners, but young people in France are very concerned about unemployment.
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He told great stories. The one about losing unemployment was always one of my favorites.
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On the federal level, the government keeps talking about having all-day schools and about providing child care facilities and dealing with unemployment which is nine percent. We actually were dealing with these issues several years ago.
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Unemployment at 6 percent means the Fed has just lost six full years of progress towards lower unemployment in just six quarters. With its preferred measure of core inflation at the lowest level since the 1960s, the Fed probably requires a run of monthly payroll gains of 150,000 to 200,000 before it will feel any real need to tighten.
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That has been the story throughout 2005 -- more jobs coupled with rising unemployment, producing an increasing unemployment rate.
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Kentucky was one of 18 states plus the District of Columbia that reported an unemployment rate above the U.S. Jobless rate in December 2005.
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