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Change in Nonfarm Payrolls (Aug) 162K vs 55K Expected, Unemployment Rate 4.1%

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:33:30 -0400

(Updated - September 4, 2026 8:33 AM EDT)

Change in Nonfarm Payrolls (Aug) 162K vs 55K Expected, Unemployment Rate 4.1%

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in August, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in food services and drinking places and in local government education. The information industry lost jobs.

This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information about the concepts

Change in Nonfarm Payrolls (Aug) 162K vs 55K Expected, Unemployment Rate 4.1%

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:33:30 -0400

(Updated - September 4, 2026 8:33 AM EDT)

Change in Nonfarm Payrolls (Aug) 162K vs 55K Expected, Unemployment Rate 4.1%

Change in Nonfarm Payrolls (Aug) 162K vs 55K Expected, Unemployment Rate 4.1%

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:33:30 -0400

(Updated - September 4, 2026 8:33 AM EDT)

Change in Nonfarm Payrolls (Aug) 162K vs 55K Expected, Unemployment Rate 4.1%

Change in Nonfarm Payrolls (Aug) 162K vs 55K Expected, Unemployment Rate 4.1%

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:33:30 -0400

(Updated - September 4, 2026 8:33 AM EDT)

Change in Nonfarm Payrolls (Aug) 162K vs 55K Expected, Unemployment Rate 4.1%

Gold rally driven by investment demand, not just Treasury move, says analyst

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:03:26 -0400

Investing.com -- Gold's surge in August was led primarily by investment flows rather than any single catalyst, according to Krishan Gopaul, senior analyst for EMEA at the World Gold Council, who cautioned against pinning the move on the U.S. Treasury's decision to expand its bond buybacks.

Spot gold rallied close to $4,700 an ounce in August, its highest since mid-May. But Gopaul said the buyback announcement, which came late in the month, likely accelerated an existing trend rather than creating a new one, set against a backdrop of debt concerns in the U.S. and elsewhere.

“There are still other key drivers

Gold rally driven by investment demand, not just Treasury move, says analyst

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:03:26 -0400

“There are still other key drivers

Gold rally driven by investment demand, not just Treasury move, says analyst

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:03:26 -0400

“There are still other key drivers

Gold rally driven by investment demand, not just Treasury move, says analyst

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:03:26 -0400

“There are still other key drivers

Warsh: Inflation Data Don’t Suggest Trend Meaningfully Improved

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:46 -0400

(Updated - August 28, 2026 10:00 AM EDT)

In Our Time

Chairman Kevin Warsh

At “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,” an economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Watch Live

Thank you. It's great to be here again and to see so many familiar faces. I've been looking forward to this weekend—what better place to mark my 100th day as Chairman?

For the fine hospitality, everyone here is in debt to President Jeff Schmid and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jeff, our thanks to you all.

Jeff and the other

Warsh: Inflation Data Don’t Suggest Trend Meaningfully Improved

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:46 -0400

(Updated - August 28, 2026 10:00 AM EDT)

In Our Time

Chairman Kevin Warsh

At “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,” an economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Watch Live

Thank you. It's great to be here again and to see so many familiar faces. I've been looking forward to this weekend—what better place to mark my 100th day as Chairman?

For the fine hospitality, everyone here is in debt to President Jeff Schmid and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jeff, our thanks to you all.

Jeff and the other

Warsh: Inflation Data Don’t Suggest Trend Meaningfully Improved

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:46 -0400

(Updated - August 28, 2026 10:00 AM EDT)

In Our Time

Chairman Kevin Warsh

At “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,” an economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Watch Live

Thank you. It's great to be here again and to see so many familiar faces. I've been looking forward to this weekend—what better place to mark my 100th day as Chairman?

For the fine hospitality, everyone here is in debt to President Jeff Schmid and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jeff, our thanks to you all.

Jeff and the other

Warsh: Inflation Data Don’t Suggest Trend Meaningfully Improved

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:46 -0400

(Updated - August 28, 2026 10:00 AM EDT)

In Our Time

Chairman Kevin Warsh

At “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,” an economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Watch Live

Thank you. It's great to be here again and to see so many familiar faces. I've been looking forward to this weekend—what better place to mark my 100th day as Chairman?

For the fine hospitality, everyone here is in debt to President Jeff Schmid and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jeff, our thanks to you all.

Jeff and the other

Warsh: Inflation Data Don’t Suggest Trend Meaningfully Improved

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:46 -0400

(Updated - August 28, 2026 10:00 AM EDT)

In Our Time

Chairman Kevin Warsh

At “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,” an economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Watch Live

Thank you. It's great to be here again and to see so many familiar faces. I've been looking forward to this weekend—what better place to mark my 100th day as Chairman?

For the fine hospitality, everyone here is in debt to President Jeff Schmid and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jeff, our thanks to you all.

Jeff and the other

Warsh: Inflation Data Don’t Suggest Trend Meaningfully Improved

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:46 -0400

(Updated - August 28, 2026 10:00 AM EDT)

In Our Time

Chairman Kevin Warsh

At “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,” an economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Watch Live

Thank you. It's great to be here again and to see so many familiar faces. I've been looking forward to this weekend—what better place to mark my 100th day as Chairman?

For the fine hospitality, everyone here is in debt to President Jeff Schmid and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jeff, our thanks to you all.

Jeff and the other

Warsh: Inflation Data Don’t Suggest Trend Meaningfully Improved

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:46 -0400

(Updated - August 28, 2026 10:00 AM EDT)

In Our Time

Chairman Kevin Warsh

At “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,” an economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Watch Live

Thank you. It's great to be here again and to see so many familiar faces. I've been looking forward to this weekend—what better place to mark my 100th day as Chairman?

For the fine hospitality, everyone here is in debt to President Jeff Schmid and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jeff, our thanks to you all.

Jeff and the other

Warsh: Inflation Data Don’t Suggest Trend Meaningfully Improved

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:46 -0400

(Updated - August 28, 2026 10:00 AM EDT)

In Our Time

Chairman Kevin Warsh

At “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,” an economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Watch Live

Thank you. It's great to be here again and to see so many familiar faces. I've been looking forward to this weekend—what better place to mark my 100th day as Chairman?

For the fine hospitality, everyone here is in debt to President Jeff Schmid and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Jeff, our thanks to you all.

Jeff and the other

Bessent's buyback gambit may be engineering a CTA short squeeze at 5.34%

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:44:31 -0400

Investing.com - The 30-year Treasury yield hit 5.34% on August 19, a 19-year high, and a theory gaining traction on the buy side is that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may be letting it happen on purpose.

The hypothesis centers on commodity trading advisors. Bank of America's Systematic Flows Monitor, as of August 22, reported that CTA positioning in U.S. Treasury futures "remains stretched short." Paradoxically, the yield spike that week gave those short positions more breathing room, pushing forced short-covering trigger levels further away rather than activating them. Goldman Sachs' futures trading desk, in a Weekly Rundown Report, put hard numbers

Bessent's buyback gambit may be engineering a CTA short squeeze at 5.34%

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:44:31 -0400

Bessent's buyback gambit may be engineering a CTA short squeeze at 5.34%

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:44:31 -0400

SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) spreader of 115,876 contracts of September 420 and 430 calls as share price up 1.22%

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:00:05 -0400

SPDR Gold Trust (NYSE: GLD) 30-day option implied volatility is at 28; compared to its 52-week range of 14 to 44. Call put ratio 7.4 calls to 1 put with a focus on a spreader of 115,876 contracts of September 420 and 430 calls as share price up 1.22%.

BofA's Hartnett sees dollar slump, risk selloff if bond intervention fails

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:50:08 -0400

Investing.com -- Bank of America strategists say a fresh round of policy intervention to cap long-term Treasury yields is expected to succeed, but warn the consequences could be severe if it doesn’t.

Michael Hartnett and his team said Treasury Secretary Bessent’s efforts to keep 30-year yields below 5% represent the latest escalation in a series of "Bessent puts" aimed at stopping the "Anything But Bonds" threat to U.S. government and AI financing, following dollar swap lines with Asia and the Gulf and FX intervention on the yen.

The strategists said quantitative easing has been the genesis of the current bull market

BofA's Hartnett sees dollar slump, risk selloff if bond intervention fails

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:50:08 -0400

The strategists said quantitative easing has been the genesis of the current bull market

BofA's Hartnett sees dollar slump, risk selloff if bond intervention fails

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:50:08 -0400

The strategists said quantitative easing has been the genesis of the current bull market

BofA's Hartnett sees dollar slump, risk selloff if bond intervention fails

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:50:08 -0400

The strategists said quantitative easing has been the genesis of the current bull market

BofA's Hartnett sees dollar slump, risk selloff if bond intervention fails

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:50:08 -0400

The strategists said quantitative easing has been the genesis of the current bull market