I am hitting the road to got to David Kotok’s Shadow Federal Reserve meeting in Grand Lake Stream, Maine (I will have access to internet while up north).
Before I head off to La Guardia, I wanted to post these two charts.
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Looking at the ADP and Challenger data suggests payrolls might be better than expected:
(Thanks MH!)
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But looking at Bruce Murray’s analysis (He is CEO of WANTED USA), we reach a different conclusion:
Bruce adds:
Following up from our prior exchange, our July forecast for Non-Farm payrolls shows a loss of 440,000 jobs. More information is here: http://hdi.wantedanalytics.com/, and I’ve pasted a chart below.
If you are interested in following our forecasts of monthly changes in US Non-Farm Employment, you can find them here: http://hdi.wantedanalytics.com/monthly-bls-forecast/
Because we use data collected from online job boards, we can produce a forecast earlier than other estimates. (Ours comes out two weeks prior to the BLS figures.) Also, over the past 30 months, our forecasts have been more accurate than the so-called “Consensus Estimates.”
The data we collect is also supplied to The Conference Board which uses it to produce its monthly Help Wanted Online Data Series. That’s here: http://www.conference-board.org/economics/helpwantedOnline.cfm
I am inclined towards the latter argument . . .
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