Michael McKee

The data may be clean, but it's not certain how clear they will be in setting a rate cut agenda.

Michael McKee, Bloomberg Radio.

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Eight thousand jobs for unemployment claims filings.

That's up from one ninety nine was the initial report that's been revised up to two hundred thousand for the prior week.

Now, remember, these are pretty low numbers, but we also had the last two weeks be holiday weeks.

So we could see a jump up in the weeks after that.

Evaluating it when we do, but working broadly to make sure that we are working to make housing more affordable and accessible to families in the United States.

ADP is out with its monthly estimate of jobs created in the month of December, 41,000, they say.

Annual pay up 4.4 percent.

The change in private employment, of course, is 41,000.

We did get a bounce, and we are expecting a bounce in nonfarm payroll.

So in the sense of direction, yes, they...

They may be offering some prediction, but in terms of numbers, it never works out that way.

Bloomberg's Michael McKee has that.

It is 7,146,000 job openings, which is significantly down from the 7,449,000 in October.

Remember, these are two months delayed.

But people look at the quits level.

The quits level went up to 2% from 1.9.

People feeling a little bit better about being