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  1. October job report tops estimates

    October job creation comes in at 128,000, easily topping estimates even with GM auto strike

    KEY POINTSNonfarm payrolls rose by 128,000 in October, exceeding the estimate of 75,000 from economists surveyed by Dow Jones.

    There were big revisions of past numbers as well. August’s initial 168,000 payrolls addition was revised up to 219,000, while

    September’s jumped from 136,000 to 180,000.

    The unemployment rate ticked slightly higher to 3.6% from
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  2. A strong October ends with a dip

    Stocks fell on Thursday, a post-Fed day, and a post-Apple earnings day, and by the close we saw Wednesday's gains in the Dow and S&P get reversed. The Dow lost 140-points but that was well off the morning lows of the day so we did see some buying in the afternoon session. Small caps and the Transportation Index lagged again, but the Transports got a nice bounce off its 50-day EMA.

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