{"date":"2026-10-02","slug":"2026-10-02-us-us-non-farm-payrolls-september","event":"US Non-Farm Payrolls (September)","country":"US","category":"employment","importance":"high","actual":"29K","forecast":"84K","previous":"133K (August, revised from 162K)","unit":"jobs, monthly change (unemployment rate 4.2% vs 4.1% expected)","surprise":"cooler","affected_markets":[{"why":"Weak hiring raises expectations of Fed rate cuts, lowering yields.","market":"US Treasuries","direction":"up"},{"why":"Lower expected rates reduce the dollar's yield appeal.","market":"US Dollar","direction":"down"},{"why":"Rate-cut hopes help, but weak growth worries offset them.","market":"Equities","direction":"neutral"},{"why":"Lower yields and slowdown fears support gold.","market":"Gold","direction":"up"}],"analysis_en":{"headline":"US Non-Farm Payrolls: +29K jobs in September vs 84K expected; unemployment rises to 4.2%","learning":"Never read just the headline: check the number versus expectations, the revisions to prior months, and the unemployment rate. A single month is noise; the multi-month trend is the signal.","market_impact":"A weaker labor market usually raises bets on Fed rate cuts, which tends to push bond yields and the dollar lower and support gold. For stocks the effect is mixed: lower rates help, but slowdown fears weigh.","what_it_means":"This monthly report measures how many net new jobs the US economy created. September came in far below forecasts, unemployment rose from 4.1% to 4.2%, and July and August were revised down by a combined 60,000 jobs (August: 133K from 162K)."},"source_url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/02/jobs-report-september-2026.html","occurred_at":"2026-10-02T16:15:12.697+00:00","published_at":"2026-10-02T16:15:12.697+00:00","brief_url":"https://vectorialdata.com/economia/2026-10-02-us-us-non-farm-payrolls-september/brief.md","page_url":"https://vectorialdata.com/economia/2026-10-02-us-us-non-farm-payrolls-september","json_ld":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Dataset","name":"US Non-Farm Payrolls (September) — 2026-10-02","description":"US Non-Farm Payrolls: +29K jobs in September vs 84K expected; unemployment rises to 4.2%","creator":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Vectorial Data","url":"https://vectorialdata.com"},"license":"https://vectorialdata.com/terms","variableMeasured":"US Non-Farm Payrolls (September) (jobs, monthly change (unemployment rate 4.2% vs 4.1% expected))","temporalCoverage":"2026-10-02","isAccessibleForFree":true,"distribution":[{"@type":"DataDownload","encodingFormat":"application/json","contentUrl":"https://vectorialdata.com/api/economic-events/2026-10-02-us-us-non-farm-payrolls-september"},{"@type":"DataDownload","encodingFormat":"text/markdown","contentUrl":"https://vectorialdata.com/economia/2026-10-02-us-us-non-farm-payrolls-september/brief.md"}]},"disclaimer":"Vectorial Economía is descriptive educational information about macro data. Not investment advice."}