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4 paź 2024 · Mortgage Rates Jump Higher Following Surprisingly Strong Jobs Report. October 4, 2024 by Chen Zhao. A much stronger-than-expected September jobs report pushed mortgage rates up from 6.26% to 6.53% today. Debate about Federal Reserve rate cuts will now shift from choosing between a pace of 25 bps or 50 bps cuts each meeting, to choosing between ...
4 paź 2024 · U.S. employers added 254,000 jobs in September, an acceleration from the upwardly-revised 159,000 in August, and the most since March, while the unemployment rate edged down to 4.1% from...
4 paź 2024 · The drop in the unemployment rate from 4.2% in August reflected an increase of 430,000 jobs in household employment, which more than absorbed the 150,000 people who entered the labor force.
4 paź 2024 · The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1% in September from 4.2% in August. A strong jobs report was not what most economic forecasters expected.
We revised downward our mortgage rate forecast for 2024 given the recent decline in longer-term interest rates. We now forecast the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to average 6.6 percent in 2024 (down one-tenth from last month’s forecast) and to average 5.9 percent in 2025, down one-tenth.
30 wrz 2024 · What is the unemployment rate in the US right now? About 4.1% in September 2024. That was a 0.3 percentage point increase from a year before. The unemployment rate is the percentage of people in the labor force who are actively looking for work but not currently employed. It's a common way to measure the health of the job market and economy.
Civilian unemployment rate. Charts related to the latest "The Employment Situation" news release | More chart packages. The chart has 1 Y axis displaying Percent. Data ranges from 3.4 to 14.8.
