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1st Quarter Productivity and Costs May 5, 2011 – Futures Trading, Commodity Trading, Futures trading news, commodity trading news, Futures and commodities brokerage, Economic news, economic Calendar

Nonfarm business productivity was up 1.6% in the first quarter; this was up from last quarters 2.9% increase. 1.6% is better than the analyst’s projection of 1.5% increase.   Growth in productivity came from an increase in output gain of 3.1% in non-farm business sector. Hours worked also increased by 1.4%.  However, unit labor cost came in worse… read more