“The September employment report was remarkable for its broad-based weakness,” says Alan Ruskin, chief international strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital.
The jobs report echoes other signs that the US economy was weakening quite rapidly even before the latest bout of intense financial stress had time to fully affect economic activity.
“The evidence is becoming fairly compelling,” says Brian Sack, vice-president at Macroeconomic Advisers. “We see it in orders for business goods, we see it in consumer spending, we see it in the ISM survey – now we are seeing it in employment.”
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