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How are the job numbers today? (Original Post) malaise Mar 2020 OP
MSNBC just said they were pretty good... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #1
Thanks malaise Mar 2020 #2
good. like 3.x percent unemployment lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #3
I've been waiting for an LBN posting. But its +273,000 jobs, and Dec & Jan were revised up by a progree Mar 2020 #4
Thanks malaise Mar 2020 #5
BumRushDaShow has got a posting up in LBN. 😊 😊 progree Mar 2020 #6

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
1. MSNBC just said they were pretty good...
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 09:49 AM
Mar 2020

Unemployment down to 3.5%.

All pre-coronavirus and market crash, of course.

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)
3. good. like 3.x percent unemployment
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 09:51 AM
Mar 2020

But nobody cares... market is going down again... maybe another record drop.

Airlines, cruise ships, retail, etc... are all going to tank.

progree

(10,909 posts)
4. I've been waiting for an LBN posting. But its +273,000 jobs, and Dec & Jan were revised up by a
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 09:51 AM
Mar 2020

combined 85,000. And unemployment rate went a tick down from 3.6% to 3.5% But note that the jobs surveys (both the Establishment and the Household) were conducted in the week that contained the 12th -- before the coronavirus became much of a concern in the U.S.. And before the stock market began its descent -- the market indices all time high was set on the 19th.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Next jobs report is Friday April 3 - should look a lot different.

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