The Labor Department will report on December's nonfarm payroll report on Friday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern, with economists surveyed by MarketWatch expecting payrolls to fall 500,000 after the 533,000 loss in November.
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Market expectations may be for an even grimmer reading given the estimate by ADP of nearly 700,000 jobs lost.
"Recent anecdotal data have jacked up the usual nervousness around the monthly U.S. labor market report a further notch, as speculation of a multi-decade drop in nonfarm payrolls has intensified," noted Kenneth Broux, economist at Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets in London.
"Investors are reluctant to do anything until they see what number comes out of the U.S. The number is expected to be bad by everybody, it's just a question of how bad," added Andrew Sullivan, a trader with Main First Securities in Hong Kong.
The dollar slipped 0.6% vs. the Japanese yen, and yields on 10-year Treasury bonds slipped 4 basis points to 2.41%. Yields move in the opposite direction to prices.
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Market expectations may be for an even grimmer reading given the estimate by ADP of nearly 700,000 jobs lost.
"Recent anecdotal data have jacked up the usual nervousness around the monthly U.S. labor market report a further notch, as speculation of a multi-decade drop in nonfarm payrolls has intensified," noted Kenneth Broux, economist at Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets in London.
"Investors are reluctant to do anything until they see what number comes out of the U.S. The number is expected to be bad by everybody, it's just a question of how bad," added Andrew Sullivan, a trader with Main First Securities in Hong Kong.
The dollar slipped 0.6% vs. the Japanese yen, and yields on 10-year Treasury bonds slipped 4 basis points to 2.41%. Yields move in the opposite direction to prices.
