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4 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The Nov. jobs report out at 8:30 a.m. is expected to show yet another decline in the pace of jobs returning from lockdowns just as the virus is raging out of control again and new lockdowns are starting to pile up. Consensus for 475K and 6.8% unemployment. politico.com/newsletters/mo…
But the Wall Street whisper number is significantly lower, more like 200K. In normal times this would be quite strong numbers. But these are not normal times. politico.com/newsletters/mo…
Update: U.S. job growth slowed in November for a 5th straight month to 245,000 in face of the surging pandemic — well below expectations
politico.com/news/2020/12/0…
We are still around 10 million jobs short of where we were pre-Covid. In normal times 245K would be a strong number, our @morningmoneyben says. But these are not normal times and the pace of jobs coming back is heading toward zero at the moment.
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