Non Farm Payrolls Disappoint – Bad Numbers Or Confusing?

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Non Farm Payroll reaction – a bit of a consuming but generally negative picture – The unemployment rate in the United States declined by 0.3 percent to 4.7 percent in May. Non Farm Payroll employment increased by 38,000.O JPMorgan opines: obviously this is a huge miss vs. the St 160K. Even if you add back ~35K to adjust for Verizon, that number is only ~73K (still a big miss). Also there was a large downward revision to the Apr number (from +160K to +123K). Most had assumed the job addition pace was slowing from the 200K+ pace of the last…

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