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by Liz Capo McCormick
Bloomberg.com
Bill Gross said growth in wages lagging behind increases in U.S. employment gains makes it difficult to maintain the economic expansion at a pace that the Federal Reserve would like to see to raise interest rates.
“It’s about wages” as to why the U.S. 10-year note yield is so low, Janus Capital Group Inc. (JUCIX)’s Gross said in a radio interview on “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene and Mike McKee. “The market is conflicted over what the Fed will do.’
Employment rose a more than forecast 252,000 positions in December and the jobless rate declined to 5.6 percent, a Labor Department report showed. The report wasn’t all good news as earnings unexpectedly declined 0.2 percent from a month earlier.
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