Company: ADAMM
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001273685-25-000088
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Company: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 two percent, the labor market shows signs of cooling and U.S. trade policy remains volatile. Uncertainty about how the Federal Reserve may adjust its monetary policy or the target range for the federal funds rate in response to such macroeconomic trends and the continued independence of the Federal Reserve may limit or undermine business activity and the potential for future GDP growth or result in further volatility, which could negatively impact the value of credit investments.

The U.S. labor market appears to have cooled over the course of the year and into the third quarter, as suggested recently by a number of market commentators. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. unemployment rate trended up slightly over the course of the third quarter and was 4.1% at the end of June 2025, 4.2% at the end of July 2025, and 4.3% at the end of August 2025, which represented the highest unemployment rate since October 2021. Due to the U.S. federal government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Labor has not released, and will not release until the federal government is reopened, its report on the employment situation, including the unemployment rate, for September 2025. However, some organizations, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, have published unemployment rate estimates in the interim, with several estimating the unemployment rate to have held steady at 4.3% at the end of September 2025. Additionally, the number of unemployed persons exceeded the number of available job openings in July 2025. This marked the first time since April 2021 that the number of job openings fell below the number of unemployed persons and further signaled a potential softening in the labor market. The disparity in number of unemployed persons and job openings continued through the end of August 2025, at which time there were 7.4 million unemployed persons and 7.2 million available job openings. Uncertainty with respect to economic and trade policies and higher costs due to inflation, particularly with respect to the construction industry, have been suggested by some market commentators as having contributed to the slackening labor market. 

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The Federal Reserve raised the target range for the federal funds rate a total of 5.25% in 2022 and 2023, bringing the range to its highest level in over 22 years and holding the range at that level for 14 months. In 2024, the Federal Reserve cut the target range by 100 basis points, in aggregate,