Sharjah24 - Reuters: U.S. job growth likely accelerated in September as the summer wave of COVID-19 infections began to subside, fueling demand for high-contact services like dining out, and positioning the Federal Reserve to start scaling back its monthly bond buying.
The Labor Department's closely watched employment report on Friday would also suggest that an apparent sharp slowdown in economic activity in the third quarter was probably temporary. Still, the labor market and broader economy remain constrained by worker and raw material shortages, wrought by the pandemic.
"With COVID clearly on a downward path again, I think the jobs report should be pretty good," said James Knightley, chief international economist at ING in New York. "But there are still clearly strains in the job market, in that the labor supply story remains very constrained."
According to a Reuters survey of economists, nonfarm payrolls likely surged by 500,000 jobs last month, which would leave the level of employment about 4.8 million jobs below its peak in February 2020.
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