The US job market delivered a shocker in December, obliterating forecasts with a surge in job creation and a drop in the unemployment rate.
Nonfarm payrolls skyrocketed by 256,000, blowing past the Dow Jones estimate of 155,000 and a huge increase from November’s already impressive 212,000.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate slid to 4.1%, defying predictions. This performance is likely to complicate the Federal Reserve‘s deliberations on monetary policy as it weighs interest rate strategies in 2025.
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