The weaker 134,000 gain in non-farm payrolls in September may well be a one-off, reflecting some hit from Hurricane Florence. With large upward revisions to previous months’ payroll gains, a fall in the unemployment rate to its lowest level since 1969, and another solid gain in average hourly earnings, there is little in this report to stop the Fed from continuing to raise interest rates once a quarter.
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