LMCI: Not Yet Finished

By |2017-01-09T18:43:11-05:00January 9th, 2017|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

With two months of an increasing index, the Federal Reserve’s alternate, comprehensive factor model for the labor market turned negative again for December 2016. The Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) was down 0.3 points after gaining an upwardly revised 2.1 in November. Though there are 19 components in the overall index, the lackluster headline number for the Establishment Survey as [...]