The solid 223,000 gain in non-farm payrolls and drop-back in unemployment to a 50-year low in December will, at face value, do little to ease the Fed’s concerns about resilient core services inflation. That said, the softer gain in average hourly earnings suggests wage growth is nevertheless slowing, and we still think the labour market will weaken more markedly this year.
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