Trump's speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants from 'filthy' countries

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8. The big jobs report is scheduled for next Tuesday Dec 16 - it will be a combination of October and November

for the headline non-farm payrolls part of it. It will have the November unemployment rate (there was and never will be an October unemployment rate. The separate Household Survey that produces the unemployment rate was never conducted). All this per a November 21 announcement, and according to the Revised Release Dates link below. No guarantees there won't be more changes before then.

Revised release dates for Bureau of Labor Statistics reports: https://www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lapse-revised-release-dates.htm

Given that the latest available (thru September) nonfarm payroll jobs averaged only 39k/month over the last 5 months (May thru September), this should be interesting. And watch for downward revisions of August and September in the upcoming Dec 16 report.

Non-farm payrolls: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0500000001?output_view=net_1mth

ETA-the Oct-Nov combined jobs report was earlier scheduled for December 5, the usual first Friday date reports like these. That would have given the Federal Reserve a few days to look at it before their December 10 rate-setting decision. But on November 21 it was announced that the Oct-Nov report would be released Dec 16; that's 6 days after the Fed decision day.