Payroll Processor ADP has announced that private sector payrolls not including farms, added more new jobs than had been expected during November. This indicates that employers in the private sector seemed little affected by the continual partisanship taking place on Capitol Hill.
However, despite this good news, or possibly due to the news, some believe it might foretell a start in January of tapering by the Federal Reserve in its quantitative easing.
According to the national employment report from ADP, private payrolls increased new jobs by 215,000 during November. Projections by economists had been that 170,000 would be added. The November report also outpaced that of October, which was revised up to 184,000 from the original 130,000.
One chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, which works with ADP to release the payroll report, said the job market was still surprisingly resilient in the wake of the shutdown in the government and the problems over the debt limit of the treasury.
The economist added that employers across every industry and size looked beyond the battles in Washington.
Other economists agree saying the numbers for the private sector were good and if the numbers are not revised lower, this might be a sign that jobs growth is increasing and that the Fed could taper in the near future.
If the job growth gets confirmed by the jobs report from the federal government on Friday, it will give the U.S. two consecutive months of 200,000 new jobs, said one economist. That means, he continued that tapering would probably start early in 2014, not in January, but not later than March.
Tapering, said another economist, is likelier to start during January and not March, especially if the job numbers on Friday are good and if overall sales during the holidays end at a higher number than the recent report from the National Retail Federation that said they were lagging.
