Mutual funds on Monday.  Today’s post is about the blowout jobs number reported this morning.

At the usual time, 8:30 am edt, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Labor Department released its monthly Employment Situation report today.  In it, last month’s paltry +38,000 new jobs figure was revised down to +11,000.  But April’s number was revised up by an almost offsetting amount.  More importantly, June’s new hires were reported at a huge +287,000 new jobs.

The June report goes a long way toward convincing economists that the very poor jobs showing for May is a statistical quirk, not a signal of a major slowdown in the US economy.  …the Federal Reserve, too, which had cited the May figure  + possible fallout from Brexit as reasons to refrain from raising the Fed Funds interest rate as planned last month.

Pre-market reaction to the news was at first subdued, with S&P 500 futures trading just above breakeven immediately after the announcement.  But while I’ve been writing this, futures have improved to a gain of about 3/4 of a percent.

Wage gains, another aspect of the ES that investors have been looking hard at–for signs of incipient inflation, and therefore the need to hike interest rates more quickly to stave off excessive price level gains–were very small.  Over the past year, wages have risen at a 2.6% rate. That’s higher than the current inflation level, but not by much.

All in all, a comforting report.