Take the ADP Jobs Number With a Boulder of Salt

ADP excludes government jobs. It’s also notoriously volatile and has a history of big misses in forecasting the official Labor Department payroll report. But perhaps most important is that it just doesn’t jibe with other recent…

ADP: December’s Private Sector Jobs Jumped by 297,000

ADP’s latest report showed a total that was nearly triple what economists were expecting. It’s only one month’s data, and it’s too soon to call it a hiring boom. However, the report offers more hope and some evidence that the n…

Stocks Vault on Job Gains and Global Data

The Dow jumped skyward on Wednesday as stocks rallied around the globe on a stream of strong economic news, both abroad and in the U.S. A less anxious outlook for European sovereign debt also helped.
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