Latest unemployment report little comfort for boomers clients

Losing your job when you’re about to retire might throw a slight wrinkle into your financial plan. Older boomer clients will be anxious about the next report, and will look to their advisor for reassurance. The U.S. reported the steepest rise in unemployment in 22 years – to 5.5 percent in May, suggesting consumers already facing a housing slump and soaring gasoline prices now confront even more pressure from a weakening jobs market.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the data, which included a fifth-straight drop in non-farm employment, should take financial-market expectations of Federal Reserve rate increases as soon as this autumn off the table.