December's Nonfarm Payroll number did not quite live up to expectations at +103,000. Expectations were for a +150,000 increase after a strong Automatic Data Processing (ADP) number earlier this week. The unemployment rate dropped from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent, but it appears this is due to a drop in the labor force and not from substantial job creation.
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