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June\u2019s jobs report did not just miss expectations; it also complicated the story economists had been telling about a labor market that might be reaccelerating into summer. Payrolls rose by only 57,000, and both April and May were revised down by a combined 74,000 jobs, which means the recent pace of hiring looks weaker in retrospect than it did on the day those reports were first released. That matters because revisions can change the signal from a single month\u2019s surprise into a broader pattern of slowing momentum.<\/p>\n
In a statement sent to Fortune<\/em>, Glassdoor Chief Economist Daniel Zhao said the report \u201cput a damper on the fireworks\u201d and left the labor market looking \u201cmore fizzle than sparkle,\u201d arguing that the unemployment rate\u2019s drop to 4.2% is less reassuring than it appears because it was driven by a fall in labor force participation to 61.5%, not by a surge in hiring. <\/p>\n LPL Financial Chief Economist Jeffrey Roach made a quick calculation and noted that it means an additional 2.5 million have dropped out of the labor force since last year. Zooming further out, it means that Americans not in the labor force rose to 105.8 million, \u201cmost likely due to folks giving up looking for work,\u201d which he called a \u201cconcerning trend.\u201d The bottom line for Roach, he wrote, is that firms are still adding to their payrolls, but hours worked are below pre-pandemic levels as firms cut back.<\/p>\n Glassdoor\u2019s Zhao also noted that wage growth came in at 3.5% year-over-year, still solid enough to keep inflation concerns alive even as job creation cools.<\/p>\n The sector details reinforce that mixed picture. Zhao pointed out that leisure and hospitality lost 61,000 jobs in June, with accommodation, food services and related categories all declining, while only smaller pockets such as temporary help and some local government roles saw gains tied to event staffing. In other words, the report did not show broad-based strength; it showed a handful of offsets that were too small to reverse the bigger weakness.<\/p>\n Jamie Cox, Managing Partner for Harris Financial Group, counted himself skeptical: \u201cThese data are misleading and should be disregarded,\u201d he argued. \u201cThere is zero chance leisure and hospitality posts a negative print in the midst of the World Cup.\u201d He predicted revisions higher in the next few months. <\/p>\n Janus Henderson Investors\u2019 Bradford Smith described payrolls as \u201clighter than expected\u201d and noted that the June figure was the weakest since February. He added that the softer labor backdrop, combined with moderating oil-price inflation, likely leaves the Federal Reserve on hold for the next meeting. <\/p>\n Similarly, Chris Zaccarelli, Chief Investment Officer for Northlight Asset Management, called the report a \u201cstark reversal\u201d with \u201ca lot less jobs created than expected,\u201d while the exuberant prior months\u2019 numbers were revised lower.<\/p>\n Taken together, the reactions suggest a labor market that is still expanding, but only modestly, and one that is giving policymakers less reason to worry about overheating. That makes the holiday-week backdrop look less like a policy turning point and more like a slow, uneven summer drift.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #fizzle #sparkle #June #jobs #report #fails #launch #July #firework<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June\u2019s jobs report did not just miss expectations; it also complicated the story economists had been telling about a labor market that might be reaccelerating into summer. Payrolls rose by… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2983,12092,12090,430,3116,3261,5645,736,12091],"class_list":["post-10249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-fails","tag-firework","tag-fizzle","tag-jobs","tag-july","tag-june","tag-launch","tag-report","tag-sparkle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}