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ADP Private Jobs Plunge, Miss; Fall For Fifth Month In A Row
With the March Payroll number printing at a miserable 88K compared to ADP's 158K print, it was only a matter of time before Mark Zandi, still furious from getting the news he won't be the next GSE Tzar, revised the last month's data to 131K as he just did. Concurrently he also announced that the just released April ADP was a huge miss to expectations of 150K, printing at just 119K, or a 31K miss. This was the 5th month in a row of declines excluding the small bounce in February data. It also means that the combined miss to expectations including March (original estimate +200K) and April (estimate 150K) is precisely 100K. This excludes whatever revisions ADP will do to the April number following the even bigger looming NFP miss. Manufacturing jobs? -10,000. Oh yes, anyone looking for seasonally unadjusted ADP data, good luck - keep on looking. In short: yet another atrocious economic data point which however may need the support of the equally horrible sub-49 Mfg ISM due out shortly to take out 1600 in the S&P.
Aside for the tiny bounce in February, this would be the 5th consecutive drop in the ADP number starting with the November 276K surge, driven purely by the QE4EVA euphoria.
Broken down by job category:
Where the jobs are(n't): anyone still paying attention to Obama's promise to add however many million manufacturing jobs in five years or whatever?
The bulk of jobs created in ultra small and mega large companies. Supposedly. At least until the revision.
For the second miss (amassing a 100k miss overall in two months thanks to the revision) in a row...
From the press release:
Service-providing jobs increased by 113,000, the weakest pace of growth in seven months. Among the service industries reported by the ADP National Employment Report, trade/transportation/utilities had the largest gain with 29,000 jobs added over the month.
Professional/business services followed, adding 20,000 jobs, and financial activities added 7,000 jobs.
"During the month of April 2013, U.S. private sector employment increased by 119,000 jobs, representing the slowest pace of expansion since September 2012," said Carlos A. Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer of ADP. "The services sector generated the overwhelming majority of new jobs in April, contributing a total of 113,000, which helped to offset overall softness in the goods-producing sector, which was marked by a loss of 10,000 manufacturing jobs."
Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, said, “Job growth appears to be slowing in response to very significant fiscal headwinds. Tax increases and government spending cuts are beginning to hit the job market. Job growth has slowed across all industries and most significantly among companies that employ between 20 and 499 workers.”
And the best thing of all: the social-media friendly ADP infographic:
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FOMC should clearly double bond purchases.
Need MOAR trickle down wealth effect.
All those soon to be laid off are begging the Fed to purchase more MBS
Wow! 119k employed in the U.S.? That's pretty good and higher than I'd expected.
/snark
Living the dream!
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And, By the Way, it wuzalldueta May following April this year.
Surprised... Yeah you shouldn't be
Layoff List
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And gold is trading down on this?
an obviously false news story from the AP ("White House on fire. President injured" caused the market to plunge 100 points. What is it that we are saying here that...MOVES THIS THING.
Need another ZH tweet to tweak the algos.
Ben will hint on tightening today as per the headlines this morning...
They can't afford to mention tightening. Stocks would most certainly take a hit if the Fed mentions tightening and we all know that the Fed can't let that happen.
This will be an interesting FOMC minutes. Especially with the disaster of an economy and unemployment. We have clear signs Bernanke's policy is not working to reduce unemployment now four years later and he is likely going to leave the next chairman with a pile of problems. It is no longer possible for him to be so smug. Hint of a tightening. Maybe. But his actions will be otherwise.
Not "tightening," tapering.
what do MBS's have to do with employment? Never could figure out why enriching bankers produced jobs..well outside of bondtraders and investment bank scammers. if demand was low...don't interest rates go down naturally? Of course...letting "capitalism" work would hurt Washington and scamming investment bankers...I suppose.
We all know now that the ONLY thing that matters is stawks being up yet another day! Fuck everything and everyone else!
this of course plays right into weakness right around fed announcement.....perfectly choreographed even though this report is junk
Yeah, cuz $2 trillion dollars, and 4 years later, the wealth effect is finally trickling down. /sarc
It's a Great Recession when Central Bankers start losing their jobs.
again. TWITTER IS A PRIVATE COMPANY. all these Street dogs WANT that IPO. "but how bad do they want us" is what i want to know...
Ben needs to go fuck himself with a rusty chainsaw
@azzhatter
The Gadsden flag circa 2013. Put this on a flag and we can start flying it on Memorial Day.
No POMO today though, wonder if that will make ANY difference.
DavidC
More and bigger QE.
Bubblize the stock market beyond the imagination.
Wealth effect. No one has to work any more.
Da troof, bro...
To wit, the increasing number of people in California who are living out doors because of the fine weather year round. No jobs, independent, enjoying the fine climate and out of doors natural organic sustainable recreational facilities the "state" has to offer.
And the numbers are growing quite rapidly!
Proof that current policies are working like Barbara Streisand's Hot Knife through Buttah... and popular to boot!
I best get to a meeting before I corrode my mind for the day....
This will cause a 15 point surge in the SP
WOW so then 1600 is already in the bag today!
Just think if it was negative...we could have made 1700.
It's been cold in the north...the immigrant landscapers are still clinging to their UE benefits.
Santelli just had another one of his epic rants. Go get that pussy shill LIEsman. Kernan was picking the corn from last nights dinner out of his teeth, as usual.
You actually watch that crap? Tonight, you can update us on Cramer's biggest buy recommendation......
I watch key macro releases on CNBS when I wake up in the morning, then I visit the 'oval office' and take a big Liesman. That's the extent of my CNBS patronage...
Bloomberg has hotter chicks though.......
+1
I disagree! Ruff Ruff!
http://newyork.metromix.com/celebrity/standard_photo_gallery/hollywood-w...
I don't remember having corn.
Damn that sequester anyway, now the Bernank has to print moar to compensate for congresses failings.
all those with jobs in manufacturing also appear to have a second job as a bank teller
they control the horozontal and the verticle, but now how it ends in flat line.
this trend is worldwide - world slowdown in a macro macro overview.
world reccesion bitchez>done tapped out>credit expansion running out of credit worthy willing participants, except bonds created for central bank purchase.
how does that end?
The answer is SO simple! Just need to ramp up bond purchases with Bernank Clownbux to around $500 billion/month! DUH!
Only $500,000,000,000 a month? Glad under achievers like you aren't in charge. Print Benny, print!
$500 Billion MOAR every month sounds about right. And the Kroogol will tell you, "As long as the Too Big To Jails keep that money parked over at the Fed, we won't need to worry about inflation".
No. And we won't have to worry about an economic recovery, either. M2V and M1 Multiplier charts are still negative. Mo' money, goin nowhere.
Does the American public think Obama is the answer or the problem? At least three more years of deterioration coming without a doubt. Prepare for an unprecedented downturn imo ...
Ben's trickling on me gives me ther urge to sing
I feel wealthy..oh so wealthy..I feel wealthy and healthy and wise. I feel shitty ..oh so shitty..I feel shitty everything's more expensive today...
Hell you could be a Chechan terrorist and Bernanke print you up a $100,000 to do what ever you want. Work, you gotta be kidding me.
Even after the Russlies and Ragheads* toldja that he was fucking dangerous as a over heated pressure cooker.
But oh, fucking no, me and granny's still getting groped and irradiated at the airport while this fuck is getting government handouts.
This shit keeps up at some point the citizenry will snap and there will be heads on sticks. And it's all avoidable, in the hands of TPTB, FFS!
* Saudi's way of saying, in writing, sorry for 9/11
There is a notable uptick in anger by the friendly plebes around me. They trust this.gov as far as they can bowl them.
BTW, yesterday your comment "So the H is for Harold...." made me almost cry in laughter. I don't even remember the thread, but damn that was funny.
The "more stimulus needed" crowd has been warming up for the last few weeks.
Fuck those guys. If you need more stimulus, try shoving a broomstick up yer asses.
Awesome!
It just doesn't GET any better than this; S&P 1,600 here we come!
SPY is down .07 at this moment.
Who will come in and buy the dip?
It is just treading water until its next move to 170.
CNBC Special: Markets in Turmoil
Host: "How are you dealing with this major market meltdown?"
Guest: "You see Host, I have this button on my screen that says 'buy'. So I type in a three or four letter string and if I get a hit, I press this buy button over here."
Host: "And what is this other button over here?"
Guest: "That is the mythical 'Sell' button. It doesn't actually work. It's there for decorative purposes."
Host: "But aren't you worried that this 0.1% correction might turn into a 0.2% correction?"
Guest: "Ah you are so naive. This method is called 'buying the dip' and works for all of us fund managers."
Host: "You are a brilliant man."
Guest: "Yes, yes I am."
ok, so dow should hit the 15,000 mark today and s&p should easily surpass the 1600 mark with this news.
And Silver gets taken to the woodshed for another butt fuck. Raise those premiums boys!
Joe Stiglitz was on Newsnight here in the UK the other evening, going on about how Europe's austerity (which isn't) isn't working, and how it should be stimulating.
It's working well in the US, isn't it Joe?
DavidC
Engineering jobs are in demand. LMFAO. These motherfuckers are so full of shit.
Indeed they are full of shit, rsnoble.
I recently was let go from a fairly sizable engineering firm working as an administrative assistant here in Pittsburgh. Business essentially dried up to nothing. It has never been this bad, I was told.
Government jobs are bound to be down again as well. Most federal agencies are still on a hiring freeze. (I work for the DoD... my department had several engineers we were in the processing of vetting, but all that got put on hold, likely at least until September, due to agency-wide freezes). So don't expect government hiring to support NFP this Friday.
Isn't it about time for the guy with the little square mustache to step out of the wings and promise to restore our national honor?
Or was it that dark skinned guy and I just missed it?
It was the dark skinned guy four years ago who promised "hope and change."
Same shit, different guy.
That train is never late! Bring on the national socialists! /sarc. I noticed they approved a morning after pill over the counter for 15 year olds= Final solution without the construction jobs. Sick fucks. See where this is going?
We will get our brutal fascist dictator in due time. Patience....
Do algos read parenthesis? "ADP Soars! (down)"
If they don't read inside parenthesis it could be bullish.
Of course, if they do read inside parenthesis, it could be bullish as well, because the FED may end all talk of ending QE - which is bad - but it's good.
Time to buy a gallon of milk and some Oreo's.
Must keep pushing US Dollar down.
Must keep pushing Euro and Yen up.
Must keep US indexes up - Dow down only 24 - we can do this.
Tomorrow everyone will forget this awful number. We don't need no stinking PMI's either.
HEAVE!!! HEAVE!!! HEAVE!!!
If all of the numbers are bad, and all of the numbers are fictional, than how bad are things really???? Reminds me of the old days when GE would miss buy a penny and they would crush it. I remember asking an old wall streeter st the time "why are they killing it? they only missed by a penny? " and he would say,"well if they couldn't fudge it enough not to miss by a penny things must really be bad."
<-- This will end badly.
<-- BFD, everything is fine, quit being so negative.
Short stocks buy gold. The latest hedgey fad trade is about to implode.
We don't need jobs...we have a printer!
This is GREAT news for the DJIA; I expect at 75 point uptick thanks to today's news.
Remember, in a usury and rentier's economy, bad news (lower wages, unemployment, low housing sales, even deflation) is GOOD.
Creditors benefit from deflation (core deflation: wages, clothes, etc) because they can extract more from debtors as they get anted off.
However, the inflation that the Peter Schiff types talk about is already happening in health care, rent costs, and *real* food (not the fake shit). Of course he doesn't talk about that, because his clients are the ones benefitting from it.
OK; so obama wins - destruction of the U.S. via it's economy. What a eff'n loser. Shot us all without a gun.
Hell hath no fury like a Tzar scorned.
Bubble Bernanke and the Fed will announce QE mega.
He intends on inflate equities to make the DOT COM bubble look insignificant.
Strategy:
1.) Jobs don't matter (New Normal)
2.) Profits don't matter
Fed will buy up housing, stocks and make the debt disappear by putting it all off balance sheet.
RE:
It's more like "profits" - because corporations are doing as good as they ever have, but it is all a rouse.
Basically, it's proifts for the corporate execs and shit sandwiches for the rest of us. Hence why QE4EVA will continue.
Plus, they can keep printing to infinity because the money they print will never hit the populaces hands anyways. You kind of need velocity of cash for inflation to take hold.
Oh, printing does hit. In the form of higher asset prices.
It funds IPOs in the market, housing. Food.
That's exactly right. As long as we keep getting a shit sandwich, the Fed will continue to print. Of course the printing is exactly WHY we are getting the shit sandwich. It's like the Fed is saying we are going to fuck you and the worse you feel for being fucked, the more we will keep fucking you. Sorry for the string of f-bombs, but it's the only way to begin to accurately convey what is happeneing.
Recovery Summer Part V, bitchez!!!
Furloughs bitchez!
The economy is terrible and it's getting worse. In fact, it's so bad that...... Michelle Obama is no longer proud of her country again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34
It's a post-industrial economy, Tyler. :)
/semi-sarc
ADP missed expectations? Well then, it should be 200K+ from the BLS on Friday.
Completely in line with the socialist planned welfare state.
Obamacare IS destroying jobs in this country. Why on earth would anyone want to hire anybody and risk a major medical expense or tax on your business.
Expect IT expenditures to increase as the amount of automation and outsourcing will have to keep pace with the lack of hiring.
Expect more layoffs for those jobs or business that can't automate or outsource to get them UNDER the magic # of Employees that mandates Obamacare.
Just remember, when you get sick and your new Obamacare coverage sucks just thank your Left Wing Progressive Democrats.
Did you read that bill yet Stretch Faced Pelosi?
crude oil and soybeans are down bigtime.
this could be my chance to go long December corn @ $5.00.
Just put on your solid Gold slippers and keep repeating "It's not a recession, it's not a recession, it's not a recession"