Posted on 09/03/2009 6:21:10 AM PDT by fiscon1
There's breaking economic data. The weekly jobs report just came out. New claims were at 570,000. The week prior it was at 574,000. The consensus was 560,00 and so this is slightly worse. That number has been bouncing in that range for the better part of two months. This is all a prelude to the monthly BLS jobs report. The consensus on that number continues to be a loss of 228,000 jobs.
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This is all a prelude to the monthly BLS jobs report. The consensus on that number continues to be a loss of 228,000 jobs.
I’ll take the over on this.
don’t make predictions on that number. No one ever gets it.
Tomorrow they release the un/under-employment numbers for August:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm
we know. That’s what we’re talking about.
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