The US labor market was bad last year. Will investors get stung by a poor January jobs report, too? | Metals Mine

  • The US labor market was bad last year. Will investors get stung by a poor January jobs report, too?

    From morningstar.com

    Investors are on edge about the January jobs report after an anxious week on Wall Street - but the survey is likely to tell them more about the past than the future of a fragile U.S. labor market. Stocks were hit hard last week before staging a dramatic recovery on Friday that catapulted the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA above the 50,000-point threshold for the first time ever. Meanwhile, U.S. Treasurys BX:TMUBMUSD10Y finally saw safe-haven demand as silver (SI00), gold (GC00), bitcoin (BTCUSD) and other hot areas of the market convulsed. A pair of crucial reports economic reports this coming week, on employment ... (full story)

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traderathome
Feb 8, 2026 4:02pm
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This is hilarious! All thru last year the lying, bullshit BLS Reports pretty much said everything was fine. Now come the "toned down" admissions nothing was further from the TRUTH! Welcome to the end of a year of lies and pain, now fostering softspoken admissions and shame. Well... maybe not from the "big, beautiful" blowhard at the White House".... wherein whatever he "thinks"... "is". God Save us!
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denmas
Feb 8, 2026 10:41pm
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Hello Prof, how are you?
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