On Wednesday, in the macro-economic sector, the latest United States figures have been mixed; reinforcing investor hopes for new fiscal stimulus initiatives. According to the ADP Employment Change survey, recorded that private employment declined sharply in December. In December 2020, private firms in the US abruptly lay off 123,000 employees, while the consensus was for 130,000 jobs to be produced after 304,000 jobs were produced in November. This is the first time since April that the private sector has shed employment across the country. On Friday, the government will announce full U.S. jobs estimates for December.
Furthermore, in the United States, the final composite Markit PMI was lower than anticipated, at 55.3, against a consensus of 55.7 and 58.6 in November. Therefore, the measure represents a slowdown in the expansion (above 50). From 55.3 and 58.4 in November, the Services Metric has slowed to 54.8. Finally, business orders increased on a month-on-month basis by 1 percent in November, versus a forecast of 0.6 percent and after a rise of 1.3 percent in October.
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In comparison to the new figures, as well as the deteriorating coronavirus pandemic in Europe and the United States, optimism in the financial markets regarding the outlook for economic growth in 2021, amid the attempts of the authorities to step up their vaccine programs.
There is criticism of the delay in vaccination programs in both the United States and Europe, and several nations have agreed to separate the distance between the two bites (from 3 weeks to 12 weeks at the latest) to vaccinate a greater portion of their population as quickly as possible.
The dissemination of the United Kingdom’s latest, more transmissible Covid-19 version raises concerns that infections will begin to accelerate in the rest of Europe and the United States, where this variant has already been found.
