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The US employment situation report dropped Friday morning … and underwhelmed. Headline payrolls shed -23,000 jobs, badly missing consensus estimates of an 80,000 gain.[i] Moreover, the past two months’ gains were revised lower. It all rekindles some fear over a “weakening” labor market but simultaneously assuages some fears that the Fed will hike rates. So which is it: bad... Read More