The January US jobs report is driving equity market gains this morning

FXstreet Monday 6th February, 2012

The big increases in non-farm and private payrolls are a welcome sign that the US economic recovery is continuing, meanwhile the unemployment rate, at 8.3%, is at its lowest point since early 2009. The skeptics have tried to find the wrinkles in the reports, and apparently the only sour note is a 30-year low in the labor force participation rate , ...

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