Labour costs Stateside rose sharply

Labour costs Stateside rose sharply

 at the end of last year as worker´s productivity slipped, new government statistics revealed.
The productivity of US workers declined at an annualised 3.0% quarter-on-quarter clip (consensus: -1.5%) over the three months to the end of December, after an increase of 2.1% in the third quarter, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics.