{"id":216010,"date":"2026-01-04T07:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216010\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:38:07","slug":"modest-us-hiring-to-cap-a-sluggish-year-for-the-job-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216010\/","title":{"rendered":"Modest US Hiring to Cap a Sluggish Year for the Job Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">US job gains probably remained modest in December, wrapping up one of the weakest years for employment growth since 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Economists project nearly 60,000 jobs were added for the month, based on the median of a Bloomberg survey ahead of Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Friday. That would leave payrolls up about 670,000 for 2025, far below the 2 million jobs added in 2024. The jobless rate probably eased to 4.5% in December from a four-year high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US job gains probably remained modest in December, wrapping up one of the weakest years for employment growth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,1951,219,1122,27429,18385,866,266,1943,238,232,220,111,139,69,3454],"class_list":["post-216010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-euro-spot","tag-european-central-bank","tag-federal-reserve","tag-government","tag-inflation","tag-job-openings","tag-jobs","tag-markets","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wage-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}