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Central bankers are closely following the labor market after cutting interest rates. <\/p>\n
Is the labor market as bad as the Federal Reserve thinks? We’ll know more on Friday, when September’s employment report<\/a> is expected to shed fresh light on the economy for workers as Fed officials worry about a rise in unemployment.<\/p>\n The jobs report leads a slew of labor market data due this week, along with updates from several Fed officials on the state of the economy. Consumer confidence, home prices, factory orders, and construction spending will also be in focus. Earnings reports from shoe seller Nike, cruise ship operator Carnival, and snack maker ConAgra Brands are due this week, along with a closely watched expected quarterly figure from Tesla.<\/p>\n Investors will also be closely watching negotiations over a government shutdown<\/a>, which could occur if a deal isn\u2019t reached by the Tuesday night deadline.<\/p>\n Stocks finished last week on an upbeat note<\/a>, on Friday snapping a three-day losing streak, though they posted weekly losses.<\/p>\n Read to the bottom for our calendar of key events\u2014and one more thing.<\/p>\n After Federal Reserve officials earlier this month said unemployment worries led them to make their first interest rate cut this year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ next employment report will likely show the extent of labor market weakness<\/a>. The economy added 22,000 jobs<\/a> in August, a weaker showing than in recent months, while unemployment ticked higher.<\/p>\n With unemployment rising, but inflation also remaining above target, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that the central bank faces a \u201cchallenging\u201d situation<\/a> in setting interest rates. That challenge is likely to be further addressed by Fed officials who are scheduled to speak this week, including New York Fed President John Williams and\u00a0Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack,<\/p>\n Will Nike\u2019s turnaround continue<\/a>? Investors may find out the answer to that question after the sneaker maker\u2019s scheduled quarterly earnings report release on Tuesday. Nike (NKE) posted smaller-than-expected drops in profits and sales in its most recent earnings report<\/a>, coming as CEO Elliott Hill has promoted a plan<\/a> to reverse the decline of the athletic wear maker.<\/p>\n Deliveries from electric vehicle maker Tesla (TSLA), expected Thursday, could offer a surprise to the upside, some analysts have suggested, anticipating a near-term boost from consumers rushing to take advantage of EV tax credits<\/a> before they expire at the end of this month. The EV maker’s stock has been hot lately<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spencer Platt\/Getty Images Central bankers are closely following the labor market after cutting interest rates. Is the labor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,41882,41879,41881,866,41883,2645,220,2920,111,139,23279,69,41880],"class_list":{"0":"post-48086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cleveland-fed","10":"tag-earnings-reports","11":"tag-employment-report","12":"tag-federal-reserve","13":"tag-john-williams","14":"tag-labor-market","15":"tag-markets","16":"tag-new-york-fed","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nike","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-quarterly-earnings-report"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48086","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=48086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}