Employment trends data from the US 11 May 2015

  • Prior revised to 127.15

The conference board's Gad Levanon warns that the jobs market this year may not be as strong as last year

"April's bounce back in the Employment Trends Index is somewhat reassuring, but expectations remain that job growth will be slower this year compared with last year. Given that the labor force is barely expanding, job growth of about 200,000 per month will be sufficient to continue rapidly lowering the unemployment rate"