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US Economy: BLS Employment Situation Report, July 2012 (Current Jobs Report)

After the rash of electronic hiccups hitting RBS results and the Big Board, Wall Street got the reprieve it needed to continue the celebrations when the Jobs report before the open posted a 172000 improvement in Private non farm payrolls

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US Morning Report: Jobs report denies Thursday’s Private payrolls report / Services optimism

Th eJobs report finally came out to a measly 80K. Private Payrolls are up 84K and the unemployment rate unchanged. Dow Futures are down 60 points as we speak with much more ahead of us. The Participation rate is better

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US Economy: Roughing up on Bad news Thursday

The day before the BLS Jobs report, everything is looking black and blue for the US economy with the Dollar index at 83 and courtesy the Euro still climbing inordinately at 83, while that has kept commodities tired, it also

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US Economy: ISM Manufacturing PMI at 54.1

Production sub index jumped to a 59.9 in the December report and understandably got a subdued 55.7 in today’s report. With Seasonally adjusted 53.1 for ISM in December 2011, the increase is well earned by the Economy, new orders sub

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Posted in Financial Markets