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Some other details of the jobs report may also be constructive. The average weekly hour's works are expected to rise by 6 minutes, which does not sound like a lot, but when there are 157 mln workers, it turns out to be 457k full-time equivalents. Average hourly earnings are expected to rise 0.2% for a 2.6% year--over-year rate, which is the upper end of the where it has been since 2010.
The under-employment rate has steadied around 9.7%. It remains well above pre-crisis levels when it was closer to 8%. There does appear to be a structural shift in the economy, not just in the US but globally. Less educated and less skilled workers are at a clear disadvantage. There are various reasons why this might be the case, including global competition and technology. Consider that unemployment for those with a college degree in the US stands at 2.5%. With a high school degree, but no college, the unemployment rate is more than double at 5.5%. Those without a high school diploma, the unemployment rate is more than three-fold higher than for college-educated (7.7%).
We read the recent FOMC statement and the dot plot to mean that the bar to a December rate hike is low. The data does not have to improve much for the Fed to act. Our back of the envelope calculation suggests the US economy created a little more than 200k jobs in September. The jobs report we expect will be more than sufficient for the Fed to hike rates this year.
That said, we think the odds of a November hike are next to nothing, even though Bloomberg calculation puts it at 17%. There is no precedent for a rate hike a week before a national election. We think that the partisan claims that the Fed has not raised interest rates because of its politics are wide of the mark. The arguments offered by Governors Brainard and Tarullo and Chicago Fed President Evans for even more caution than the Federal Reserve has shown are based purely on economic analysis.
Marc Chandler
Global head of currency strategy at BBH
Brown Brothers Harriman