2009-05-08 USER


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Karim writes:

  • NFP -539k; net revisions -66k, and +60k contribution from census workers (census workers will add about 75k jobs/mth thru year-end)
  • Underlying trend doesn’t show any real change
  • Index of aggregate hours down another 0.6% and avg weekly earnings up 0.1%
  • Wage and salary component of personal income will be down again (hours x jobs x wages)
  • Unemployment rate up from 8.54% to 8.87%; total unemployment rate up from 15.6% to 15.8%
  • Only good news was diffusion index rising from 20.3 to 28.2
  • Consensus on CNBC was this would be the ‘last, really bad number’, mostly on grounds of running out of people to fire.
  • I guess ‘really bad’ wasn’t ‘really defined’, but judging by the workweek data, doesn’t seem like material improvement anytime soon.


Change in Nonfarm Payrolls (Apr)

Survey -600K
Actual -539K
Prior -663K
Revised -699K

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Change in Nonfarm Payrolls YoY (Apr)

Survey n/a
Actual -5240.00
Prior -4861.00
Revised n/a

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Nonfarm Payrolls ALLX (Apr)

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Unemployment Rate (Apr)

Survey 8.9%
Actual 8.9%
Prior 8.5%
Revised n/a

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Unemployment Rate ALLX 1 (Apr)

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Unemployment Rate ALLX 2 (Apr)

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Change in Manufacturing Payrolls (Apr)

Survey -155K
Actual -149K
Prior -161K
Revised -167K

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Change in Manufacturing Payrolls YoY (Apr)

Survey n/a
Actual -10.7%
Prior -10.0%
Revised n/a

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Average Hourly Earnings MoM (Apr)

Survey 0.2%
Actual 0.1%
Prior 0.2%
Revised n/a

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Average Hourly Earnings YoY (Apr)

Survey 3.3%
Actual 3.2%
Prior 3.4%
Revised n/a

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Average Hourly Earnings ALLX 1 (Apr)

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Average Hourly Earnings ALLX 2 (Apr)

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Average Hourly Earnings ALLX 3 (Apr)

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Average Weekly Hours (Apr)

Survey 33.2
Actual 33.2
Prior 33.2
Revised n/a

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Wholesale Inventories MoM (Mar)

Survey -1.0%
Actual -1.6%
Prior -1.5%
Revised -1.7%

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Wholesale Inventories YoY (Mar)

Survey n/a
Actual -3.5%
Prior -1.9%
Revised n/a

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Wholesale Inventories ALLX 1 (Mar)

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Wholesale Inventories ALLX 2 (Mar)


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