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I'm David Brancaccio. There's word today new filings for unemployment benefits are down in the last week.

This statistic can be volatile from week to week among the reasons tuning interest rates.

So the economy plays in harmony is a subtle art.

Let's say good morning to Diane Swank, the chief economist at the audit tax and advisory

firm KPMG.

Good morning.

All right, so let's just stipulate the job market still looks quite strong but we do keep our eye on

notices of layoffs that might be able to tell us something about what's on the

horizon exactly so the good news is the economy remains extremely strong.

We had a stronger than expected January.

We know part of the January strength is because people hold on to workers more than they

usually do after this season of holiday hires.

We also know that we've gotten an increase in the number of layoff announcements through

the challenger, gray and Christmas numbers, and that's important too.

The good news is we were able to sort of go through those kinds of layoff announcements

and be able to absorb them really well.

That said, because there there something weakening out there and is there a

risk that as things weakened, the said might be late to the game in cutting rights?

Yeah, because if they're late to the game, then you have the other problem.

Exactly, holding on too tight and having their rise in unemployment that we don't need.

And I think it's a hard line to walk right now.

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