Jun 06 2016

Rate Range Projection by Bank

Next week 105.00 –108.00
Next 3 months 103.50 - 110.00

The below is a topic from market news

Weak U.S. employment report dims prospect of Fed rate hike

The U.S. economy created the fewest number of jobs in more than 5-1/2-years in May as manufacturing and construction employment fell sharply, which could make it harder for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.

Nonfarm payrolls increased by only 38,000 jobs last month, the smallest gain since September 2010, the Labor Department said on Friday. Employment gains were also restrained by a month-long strike by Verizon (VZ.N) workers, which depressed information sector payrolls by 34,000 jobs.

Underscoring the report's weakness, employers hired 59,000 fewer workers in March and April than previously reported. While the unemployment rate fell three-tenths of a percentage point to 4.7 percent in May, the lowest level since November 2007, that was because 458,000 Americans gave up the search for work.

This is not a good report, and it may well give Fed officials second thoughts about increasing interest rates again this month or next, as some have suggested lately, said Peter Ireland, an economics professor at Boston College.

The Fed has signaled its intention to raise rates soon if job gains continue and economic data remain consistent with a pickup in growth in the second quarter.

Fed Chair Yellen said last week that a rate increase would probably be appropriate in the "coming months," if those conditions were met. The U.S. central bank hiked its benchmark overnight interest rate in December for the first time in nearly a decade.

The dollar .DXY tumbled against a basket of currencies on Friday and was on track for its largest one-day percentage loss in four months. U.S. stocks also fell, while prices for U.S. Treasuries rose.

Financial markets largely priced out a rate increase at the Feds June 14-15 policy meeting after Fridays data, according to CME Groups FedWatch program. The chance of an increase in July fell to 37 percent from about 59 percent late on Thursday.