243,000 New Jobs

The economy created 243,000 new jobs last month. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.8%. Wages were up slightly, although that’s been sluggish lately.
The yield on the 10-year bond (^TNX) is up sharply this morning. It’s now at the highest level since June 2004. The yield is very close to breaking that level and reaching its highest point since July 2002.

Posted by on March 10th, 2006 at 10:01 am


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