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Tomorrow's ECI Could Be Bad News

Ed Yardeni Ed Yardeni · · 1 min read
Tomorrow's ECI Could Be Bad News

Q2's Employment Cost Index (ECI) comes out tomorrow morning. In his press conference yesterday, Fed Chair Jerome Powell assessed inflationary pressures in the labor market. He said:

"There's some evidence that wages, if you look at average hourly earnings [AHE], they appear to be moderating. Not so yet from the other wage measures. And we'll be getting the employment compensation index measurement I think on Friday. And that's a very important one because it adjusts for composition."

Ed Yardeni
Ed Yardeni

Dr Ed Yardeni is the President of Yardeni Research, Inc., a provider of global investment strategies and asset-allocation analyses and recommendations.