Today, at 4:30 pm Amman time, the US jobs data will be released, and the markets are awaiting what the real reading will be like compared to what is expected and
compared to the previous reading. Expectations indicate that the US economy added about 193 thousand jobs during January 2023 compared to 223 thousand jobs
in the previous reading. And if the predictions are true, then this means:
- The pace of employment is the weakest since December 2020
- It is also the sixth consecutive decline in employment data.
- Thus, this means a continued decline in employment below a support level that has been extended for more than two years
(Figure 1): Latest Monthly US jobs data, CFI research department
The jobs report is crucial in determining interest rate hike expectations and final interest rate expectations during the upcoming FOMC meetings, so Analysts expect if
the employment report is stronger than expected, the stock market and gold may decline and the dollar will rise due to fears that the Federal Reserve will be more
tightening with Raising interest rates, while a reading within or below expected may increase hopes that the Federal Reserve will deal with lenient interest rates, and
this may drag the dollar to decline and push the stock and gold markets to rise.
Therefore, when reading job data expectations today, we have to balance between the opportunity to continue reducing the pace of raising interest rates and
between the return of tightening and raising interest rates at a higher pace, and in general, Analyst expects that the issuance of these data will be accompanied by
fluctuations in the financial markets, Considering that employment and inflation data are relied upon by the Fed in reading the economic situation before any change
in interest rates.
With a reminder that the initial market reaction, regardless of the nature of the real reading, may be sharp and volatile at its beginning before the market begins to
return to stability, so it must be noted, and it is necessary to remember the golden rule: traders have different ideas and convictions in the way they interpret the
information issued, and therefore it cannot be Prices move 100% according to that information.
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