Friday, March 04, 2011

Good news on the jobs front

192,000 net new jobs last month. Unemployment falls to 8.9% (still a LONG way to go).

Both numbers beat the consensus forecasts.

33,000 net new jobs in manufacturing.

December job growth was revised up by 31,000 jobs and January job growth was revised up by 27,000.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Speaking of JOBS...how bad is KD's ankle injury? Is he out???