Unemployment Rate

Change in Nonfarm Payrolls:         Survey:  -65K          Actual:  -131K          Prior:  -125K      Revision: -221K

Change in Manufacturing Payrolls:         Survey: 13K          Actual: 36K           Prior:  9K          Revised: 13K

Change in Private Payrolls:         Survey: 90K          Actual: 71K          Prior:  83K          Revised: -31K

Unemployment Rate:         Survey:  9.6%          Actual: 9.5%          Prior:  9.5%      

Change in Nonfarm Payrolls:         Survey:  -130K          Actual:  -125K          Prior:  431K      Revision: 433K

Change in Manufacturing Payrolls:         Survey: 25K          Actual: 9K           Prior:  29K          Revised: 32K

Change in Private Payrolls:         Survey: 110K          Actual: 83K          Prior:  41K          Revised: 33K

Unemployment Rate:         Survey:  9.8%          Actual: 9.5%          Prior:  9.7%         

Change in Nonfarm Payrolls:         Survey: 536K          Actual: 431K          Prior: 290K         

Change in Manufacturing Payrolls:         Survey: 33K          Actual: 29K           Prior: 44K          Revised: 40K

Change in Private Payrolls:         Survey: 180K          Actual: 41K          Prior: 231K          Revised: 218K

Unemployment Rate:         Survey:  9.8%          Actual: 9.7%          Prior:  9.9%         

Euro trading slightly lower on the news.

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Good Morning:

The USD rose slightly ahead of this morning’s jobs report.  Speculation that the FED is considering a move towards ending the stimulus measures that were put into place last year to combat recession, will depend on positive US economic data reported durung the next few months.

World equity markets were mostly higher overnight as speculation that this morning’s jobs data will show that the US has stopped losing jobs for the first time in 2 years.  .  US Futures are virtually flat ahead of this morning’s data. 

Good Morning:

The USD  was slightly weaker ahead of this morning’s employment data.  In Germany, the Bundesbank upgraded it’s forcast for growth in 2010.

Asian equity markets were mixed, and Europe is lower at this time.  US Futures are pointing to a higher opening this morning.

Today the markets will focus on the employment data.  There are potentially mixed sgnals between the Non Farm Payroll data and the outright unemployment rate.

Watch this section for continuous updates during ths day.