On this site they say the market expects 163 and the briefing is 165.
I for one can’t wait for all the “these numbers are made up by Obama” posts. Gotta love dealing with those idiots.
imho it's too much to expect most folks to understand that on the one hand the numbers are honest and that on the other hand the numbers still show that workers without jobs jumped ten million in '09 and has perched there since.
I pulled the consensus from FactSet. Who knows...
And yeah I expect way too much around here. I should know better :-)
From Justin Wolfers - probably good advice as this number is going to be very distorted. As everything will be due to the severe weather.
“Best advice: Don’t pay much attention to this payrolls number. Wait ‘til next month, and look at average growth from November-February.”
+175 U3 rises to 6.7%
Private +162 exp +145
Participation rate steady at 63%