{"id":8452,"date":"2015-04-03T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=8452"},"modified":"2015-04-03T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:09:21","slug":"before-the-open-apr-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=8452","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Apr 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Good morning. Happy Friday. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The market is closed today, but the employment numbers were released. For the sake of completeness (in case we want to look back in the future to see what the numbers were) here they are.<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here are the employment numbers\u2026<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">unemployment rate: 5.5% (was 5.5% last month)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">nonfarm payrolls: +126K (was +295K last month) &#8211; smallest gain since the end of 2013.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">private payrolls:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">average workweek: down 0.1 hours at 34.5 hours (was 34.5)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">hourly wages: up 0.3% to $24.86 (was $24.78)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">labor participation rate: dropped to 62.7% (was 62.8%)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">February employment gains revised down from 295K to 264K.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">January revised down 239K to 201K.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On the news, S&amp;P futures dropped 20 points. <\/span><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n     var gaJsHost = ((\"https:\" == document.location.protocol) ? \"https:\/\/ssl.\" : \"http:\/\/www.\"); document.write(unescape(\"%3Cscript src='\" + gaJsHost + \"google-analytics.com\/ga.js' type='text\/javascript'%3E%3C\/script%3E\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n     var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(\"UA-6273151-1\"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Happy Friday. The market is closed today, but the employment numbers were released. For the sake of completeness (in case we want to look back in the future to see what the numbers were) here they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}