Friday, September 4, 2009
shortist blast off .......
The non-farm payrolls report from the Labor Department is due before the start of trading Friday. A Reuters Survey of 81 economists forecast employers cut 225,000 jobs last month, the smallest cut since August 2008. The survey also shows the unemployment rate edging up to 9.5 percent from 9.4 percent.A better than expected report takes stocks higher and a worse than expected report sends them lower.However, We have seen a growing trend in the market where stocks don’t move on good news. "The market now seems to be reacting negatively to positive news, and that's a change that has to be noted," counsels Carl Birkelbach, of Birkelbach Investment Securities in Chicago. There was some late-day buying on Thursday which suggests people on the Street think unemployment could surprise to the upside. Also on Friday, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner meets with the G-20 Finance ministers in London.Trading volume is likely to be light and markets could be particularly volatile ahead of the three-day Labor Day holiday.
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