The reading from the week before was revised to 419,000 from 415,000.
The army of unemployed measured by the continuing jobless claims, which has a week lag, also came down 47,000 to 3.888 million.
This is good news on the surface. Unfortunately, it is still not quite a neutral reading to the true unemployment and non-farm payrolls released each month.
JON C. OGG
Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.
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