Friday, October 7, 2011

Markets rally on jobs report - oh, wait...

Business Insider:
The jobs number for September is out, and it's good.

First of all, the headline number beat expectations.

103K came in well ahead of the expected 60K.

137K private jobs was well ahead of the 90K that analysts expected. ...

Markets are rallying on the news.
Or maybe not. The Dow this morning, as of 0855 CST:


Looks like an extremely brief rally. And 45,000 of the 103K jobs were actually Verizon workers ending their strike.

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