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BofA sees a good report.


“[W]e expect nonfarm payroll growth moderated to 230k, reversing much of the acceleration seen in January. This should still be enough to put downward pressure on the unemployment rate since we expect the labor force participation rate to be unchanged at 62.4%. As a result, we look for the unemployment rate to remain unchanged at 3.4%, but there is a meaningful risk that it rounds down to 3.3%.”


MS sees a decent report.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.