The kind of shopping — where you hand over notes and count out change in return — now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk, from a corner shop.
The jobs report bolster the argument the labor market is steady and that kills speculation that the Federal Reserve may unwind its bond buying stimulus program sooner rather than later, if bet needs later this month.
The United States Federal Reserve has announced a farther reduction in its policy of quantitative easing, or buying financial assets with newly created money.