"Here's what Wall Street expects
Nonfarm Payrolls exp. -8.25mln (range -17mln to -1.7mln), prev. -20.5mln);
Unemployment rate exp. 19.8% (range: 17.0-27.0%), prev. 14.7%;
U6 unemployment prev. 22.8%;
Participation prev. 60.2%;
Private payrolls exp. -7.5mln, prev. -19.5mln;
Manufacturing payrolls exp. -0.4mln, prev. -1.3mln;
Government payrolls prev. -0.98mln;
Average earnings M/M exp. +1.0%, prev. +4.7%; Average earnings Y/Y exp. +8.4%, prev. +7.9%;
Average workweek hours exp. 34.3hrs, prev. 34.2hrs.
"According to Morgan Stanley, the unemployment rate will move up from 14.7% to 17.0% in May, a stronger than consensus forecast, and a number which according to the bank will likely peak in unemployment rate for this cycle. In reality, as we noted last month, the shadow unemployment rate, which includes people absent from work for other reasons, is much higher (closer to 25.5% in April). There is considerable uncertainty as to how high the shadow unemployment rate could be due to compositional and categorization noise...."
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