"New residential construction activity has been on a strong upswing, with the pace of housing start…

"Over the past 10 years, the initial January payrolls print has fallen short of the consensus expec…

"The broadening across geographical regions and industries suggest that the weakness has moved beyo…

"Half of the decline since the recession was due to demographics and another half was due to disenc…

Even though the current market consensus is for 140K, the post-ADP price action suggests that the t…

Bottom line is, there's evidence the economy is accelerating, and it seems there's a shot of a big …

Labor market underperformance: The small business sector has generally been a key source of employm…

"Admittedly, the enthusiasm with which this report is received by the markets will likely be colore…

"Based on this assessment, if QE ends this fall then first rate hike could take place by the summer…

"If Obamacare succeeds in lowering health care costs further then it will have important implicatio…

Even though the official market consensus forecast for today’s payrolls report has now fallen sligh…

"Minting a $1T coin: Outside of an agreement, there are other options available to the White House …

There are at least two implications if the slowdown in medical care inflation mainly reflects cycli…

"The weakness were particularly pronounced in the Northeast and South, where the storms were acute,…

"Personal income in November and December was boosted by accelerated and special dividend payments …

The main driver for the sharp improvement in the deficit was weaker import demand, as the pace of t…

On the whole, the report underscores our prevailing bias for the improving private sector fundament…

TD Securities economist Millan Mulraine said in a note following the release, "The strong gains acr…

The S&P 500 returned to positive territory for the year, and the UK's FTSE 100 erased its post-…

"After ?ve years of persistent debt pay-down by households, the U.S. private sector deleveraging cy…