{"id":393161,"date":"2026-09-07T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393161\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:04:13","slug":"august-jobs-surge-pushes-rate-hike-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393161\/","title":{"rendered":"August jobs surge pushes rate hike expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">A recent BLS jobs report showcased surprisingly high numbers, with the U.S. economy adding 162,000 jobs in August with the unemployment rate unchanged at 4.1%. Following the announcement, nearly 60% of investors are betting on a 25bps hike to 3.75% to 4%, with the remainder of bettors suggesting the Kevin Warsh-led central bank will instead announce a hold. Dr. Rebel Cole, Lynn Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor of Finance of Florida Atlantic University, joined FOX 35&#8217;s Garrett Wymer live over Zoom to break down the latest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0September 7, 2026 5:18pm EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent BLS jobs report showcased surprisingly high numbers, with the U.S. economy adding 162,000 jobs in August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-393161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}