{"id":573180,"date":"2026-05-08T16:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573180\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:01:10","slug":"us-jobs-data-beats-expectations-for-second-month-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573180\/","title":{"rendered":"US jobs data beats expectations for second month in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Economists said the figures were encouraging, pointing to a particularly strong showing in the retail and transportation and warehousing sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Both give relatively positive signals about the health of discretionary spending, despite the hit to consumers&#8217; purchasing power from higher gasoline prices,&#8221; said Thomas Ryan, North America economist at Capital Economics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he pointed to &#8220;mixed signals&#8221; elsewhere in the report, including slow wage growth and an overall contraction in the jobs market, with fewer working-age people seeking employment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All that being said, this was ultimately a positive employment report that reinforces the view that the labour market is stable and potentially even accelerating,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economists said the figures were encouraging, pointing to a particularly strong showing in the retail and transportation and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}