US job creation is expected to have moderated to the slowest pace in more than a year in June in an early sign that red-hot labour demand is beginning to level off.
Analysts at Bloomberg estimate non-farm payrolls grew by 268,000 last month — a still-robust pace, but the smallest gain since April 2021. That follows the 390,000 positions created in May and a 436,000 pick-up in April.
With these gains, the unemployment rate is set to stabilise at its historically low level of 3.6 per cent, just shy of its pre-pandemic threshold, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is expected to report on Friday.
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