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What's With These Jobs Numbers? - Market Pop on Fake News?Where are these jobs numbers coming from? On 5/4, the latest U.S. jobs report came out showing unemployment at 3.9%(?!?) with 164,000 jobs added and wage growth virtually nonexistent. The market (DIA) couldn't decide what to do with that news early on, but Apple (plus tech overall) and energy (stocks like RIG ) were credited with lifting the indices higher, and traders ultimately deciding the jobs report shows inflation being held at bay. Thank you for lending me your attention! But if the market pop is on low unemployment (fake news) and staved-off inflation (short-term reprieve from the inevitable), that's not going to prop the market long. How is that 3.9% unemployment even calculated? Without going into details, the way unemployment is calculated has changed over the years. Many experts will tell you that if unemployment was calculated as it was back in the 90's, the number would be much, much higher. Even still, I believe unemployment has been miscalculated for a long time - presenting numbers lower than what is realistic - and a claim that unemployment is below is 4% is outrageous. The jobs environment is desolate, especially for young people. Not only is entry-level pay below livable wages, but a massive amount of jobs are ready for replacement by automation. More and more people are dropping out of the workforce, and record debt levels are coming to pass as the U.S. population is forced to turn to credit - rather than a paycheck - to maintain an acceptable standard of living. Peak earnings, slow global growth, fake jobs news, a destitute situation for young and old workers alike - the short term (questionable) news can't change the nature of reality, and if there is something that can legitimately send the markets higher, it's not - and won't be -jobs. Please like, follow, and share, and maybe we can have fun and do great things together. Thanks again! See it on the site: holsturr.com/category/markets/charts/ ** For speculative and research purposes only - good luck! **
AMEX:DIA
by holsturr
USDJPY accumulating below 114.95/115The Dollar is extremely well bid against the Yen as we head into Non-Farm Pay Rolls and may even break higher before the number. We are anticipating an eventual move to 117 - 117.50 over the coming weeks, however, the path higher is far from clear. Initial resistance is 114.95/115, already tested earlier the session. The figure could well go today, but further resistance lies just ahead; with 50% of the down-move at 115.12. Beyond there, we have the 115.40 - 115.65 zone, which sparked two bearish reversals in late January. Assuming an in line jobs print, this zone seems like a logical target for end of week. In the event of a substantially stronger than anticipated jobs number; we see a move to the 115.95 - 116.25 zone, marked by the 61.8 fib at 115.94. Initial support is today's low around 114.25, with more important support seen in the 113.55 - 113.80 zone, and a breach of there invalidating our bullish bias.
Long
by MFXSCharts
NFP Forecast EURUSD : What you should do on Friday Looking at the EUR/USD daily graph ForexSQ exprets see that the uptrend that started on 25th of July ended on August 18th. 50% Fibo retracement of that move is around 1.1155/60 and as the pair continues to stay below that level 1.11 area (Fibo 61.8% retracement) and 1.1040 (Fibo %78.6 retracement) can be targeted with the help of positive NFP numbers. It is also possible for the pair to test 1.09 area before September’s FOMC meeting. Even if we see below consensus NFP the downward may continue after a short term upward spike especially after seeing (on August 31st) how CPI and core CPI for Eurozone is respectively at 0.2% and 0.8%. 1.1200/10 area where the linear regression channel and Fibo 38.2% retracement is sitting may act as the first short term resistance level. In case this resistance is violated Fibo 23.6% retracement around 1.1265 seems as a harder obstacle to overcome. RSI on daily graph is around 42 and shows that there is more space for the pair to keep going down. Pair may go for a short covering if RSI comes close to extreme oversold levels. The last time daily RSI went below 30 was at the end of November of 2015. 100 DMA (red line) also technically supports the continuation of downward movement. Read More at www.ForexSQ.com goo.gl
by ForexSQ