SMD is forecasting an Above Bloomberg Consensus High (190K) Net New Jobs of 204,000 in Friday's
SmartMarketData, LLC is forecasting a below Bloomberg consensus high estimate (190,000) forecast of 204,000 net new NFP (non-farm payroll) jobs for December, 2019. We forecast the unemployment rate at 3.5%. We forecast average hourly earnings to tic up 0.3%. Our proprietary forecast methodology uses the LinkUp Jobs Data of real time job posts for almost 50,000 companies as a core input. This alternative data set of company job posts are a company management team's best exp