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The Jobs Report: Why "Bad News" Can Be "Good News" for Markets

Macro Investing • Beginner Investing • 7 min

On the first Friday of most months (the schedule shifts slightly depending on the calendar), the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the Employment Situation report — universally just called "the jobs report" — and it's one of the single most closely watched, market-moving data releases in all of finance, every single month. The headline figure is nonfarm payrolls: the net number of jobs added or lost across…

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