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Job figures are coming out, and here’s my prediction: The markets will overreact to the headlines

  • Written by Jeffrey Hart, Senior Lecturer of Finance, Auburn University
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As the saying goes, “There are lies, damn lies and statistics.”

And on the first Friday of every month, the American public gets a ton of new statistics to peruse. That’s when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its latest jobs figures. Within minutes of the data...

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