The better than expected 165,000 increase in non-farm payrolls in April, combined with the 114,000 upward revision to the gains in the preceding two months, will go a long way toward soothing fears of another spring slowdown. With the unemployment rate edging down to a four-and-a-bit-year low of 7.5%, the Fed may yet begin to slow the pace of its asset purchases sometime in the second half of the year.
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