{"id":16882,"date":"2026-05-09T10:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.linkpgm.com\/april-non-farm-payrolls-unexpectedly-exceeded-expectations-is-the-u-s-labor-market-really-bottoming-out\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:54:27","slug":"april-non-farm-payrolls-unexpectedly-exceeded-expectations-is-the-u-s-labor-market-really-bottoming-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/april-non-farm-payrolls-unexpectedly-exceeded-expectations-is-the-u-s-labor-market-really-bottoming-out\/","title":{"rendered":"April non-farm payrolls unexpectedly exceeded expectations! Is the U.S. labor market really &#8220;bottoming out&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/linkpgm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/&#x6BCF;&#x65E5;&#x65B0;&#x95FB;&#x5185;&#x56FE;-1024x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16791\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>Data released Friday showed that the U.S. April quarterly non-farm payrolls increased by 115,000 people, lower than the 185,000 in March after the upward revision, but higher than the market expectation of an increase of 62,000 people, for the first time in nearly a year to achieve two consecutive months of growth; the U.S. unemployment rate recorded in April 4.3%, unchanged from the previous month, in line with the market&#8217;s expectations. <br\/>After the release of the data, spot gold rose 20 dollars in a short period of time, spot silver rushed up to 81 dollars, the U.S. index fell back slightly. <br\/>The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that total nonfarm payrolls for February were revised downward by 23,000, from a decrease of 133,000 to a decrease of 156,000, while the March figure was revised upward by 7,000, from an increase of 178,000 to an increase of 185,000. <br\/>With these revisions, combined employment for February and March was down 16,000 from the previously released figure. After the revisions, February&#8217;s numbers look worse and March&#8217;s slightly better. <br\/>After last year&#8217;s near-zero job growth, this nonfarm payrolls report is showing that the U.S. labor market is stabilizing. Although labor demand remains weak, layoffs have been kept low and tax cuts have provided a boost to consumer spending and business investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data released Friday showed that the U.S. April quarterly non-farm payrolls increased by 115,000 people, lower than the 185,000 in March after the upward revision, but higher than the market expectation of an increase of 62,000 people, for the first time in nearly a year to achieve two consecutive months of growth; the U.S. unemployment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trading-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16883,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16882\/revisions\/16883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pg-markets.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}