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ADP Plunges In January To 175K; Biggest Miss Since August; December Revised Lower: "Cold, Storms" Blamed
Earlier today, we predicted with absolute accuracy what today's joke of an ADP print would be:
@GreekFire23 ADP just follows the NFP trend. Look for weak number and downward revision of December's 238K
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 5, 2014
And sure enough, the January ADP print missed as we expected, printing at 175K vs the expected 185K, while the December 238K was revised lower to 227K, confirming that ADP is nothing but an NDP trend follower and an absolutely worthless and meaningless data point that does nothing to add relevant data to the economic picture.
For those who care, this was the biggest miss since August and the largest monthly drop since August 2012, and the weakest print since August as well.
Here is the actual monthly data. Spot the trend, or alternatively - when the snow started falling.
What is truly hilarious is that ADP thought nobody would notice that they revised November from 228K to 289K. We can only assume this was a typo.
The breakdown by sector:
So much for the manufacturing renaissance: after 5 months of increases, in January 12,000 mfg jobs were lost while the financial sector added 0 workers:
How ADP compares to NFP - as pointed out it is now merely a lagging indicator with zero predictive value:
Finally, for some humor, here is econohack Mark Zandi, explaining the weak number with - what else - winter weather in the winter:
"The U.S. private sector added 175,000 jobs in January, which is in line with the average monthly growth throughout 2013,” said Carlos Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer of ADP. Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, said, "Cold and stormy winter weather continued to weigh on the job numbers. Underlying job growth, abstracting from the weather, remains sturdy. Gains are broad based across industries and company sizes, the biggest exception being manufacturing, which shed jobs, but that is not expected to continue.”
Actually what shouldn't be expected to continue, is for anyone to pay any attention to this made up, worthless employment indicator, and yet people do...
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How do I trade this info today?
Is bad news bullish or bearish?
I forgot my cheat sheet.
Add another random bullet hole to the scatter plot...
[Yen and PM's surging,,,]
Just spin the wheel and ask Vanna for a vowel. Have you ever noticed that you never see Merv Griffin and the bernank in the same room at the same time? Just sayin'
Job Vortex.
I'm confused, too. Bad job data means more stimulus. So I'm guessing DOW at 30,000. Word up.
They should just put out a 500k number friday followed by CNBC anchors just screaming "DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY!!!!!!"
It's the snow. Who wants to work when they can go sledding?
Or SKIING in the Swiss Alps!
Or in Chicago, on the way to work in the morning. I remember thirty years ago when my commodities broker walked to work in snowshoes; then because he was one of the early arrivals he got to be part of a chain of human door pullers and ice kickers trying to get the building open. Whee !. what fun.
Gold Goes Vertical On Weak ADP Report
Weak ADP report sends Gold to breakout above $1270 this morning with high of $1273 now - the close above $1270 will start the major short squeeze fireworks.http://sufiy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/gold-goes-vertical-on-weak-adp-repor...
160k low wage service sectors jobs.
#RECOVERY
#WINNING!
It was almost cringeworthy listening to CNBC try to spin the number in a positive light this morning.
Almost cringeworthy, I'd say definitely cringeworthy. Tired of that fuckhead "lies-man" constantly pimping the markets. No scruples AT ALL! Anything to keep this charade going.
'Shedding jobs is not expected to continue'....not expected by who, you rear view mirror eclownomists?
I thought they said "shredding jobs".... time to clean the ears
What? No media-friendly infographic? Was the graphic artist that designed it one of the job cuts?
Something something something weather... Something something something dips... Something something something Strength of the American worker.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat. Publish on CNBC as positivity and let the Teleprompter show up in front of a group of soon to be out of work "green energy" wage slaves. Cue the cheerleaders.
Just another glorious Wednesday here in Obama's America.
please give credit where it's due....sometimes it is bush's fault
After 6 years... its time to stop looking into the past and try to find a way out of this shit.
it doesn't make a difference who is the president. obama and bush are just two flip sides of the same coin.
a president is basically a figurehead. He proposes, congress disposes. Republicans and Democrats are flip sides of the same sold out coin to the highest bidder.
And look at gold go on the news! Whee!
But Mr Zandi there at Moody's said underbrush growth remains "sturdy."
Isn't that good?
Or is that bad?
BTW: Isn't Moody's one of the companies that rated the subprime AAA+?
DAMN YOU SNOWWWWW!!
truly pathetic, as usual...but this Marxist, criminal, treasonous and fraudulent government along with their state-run propaganda so-called "media" will come out tell us we're all "Winning!"...that we just have to be patient. That "Oh-Fuck-You-Who-Cares" is great for everyone and especially 30 million more illegal aliens who want our money and our country, and all us patriotic Americans just need to shut up and deal with it.
Look at that chart above: +160,000 "service" providing jobs, i.e. McDonalds, etc. and -12,000 manufacturing
Yup...that's the continued recipie for disaster that's never going to go away until this whole country collapses.
Hey, I got an idear...let's print more of that fucking funny "money"!!! Obviously, the Trillions and Trillions we've already printed and given away to banks and foreign countries has done wonders for us, right? And isn't it even more obvious that "tapering" Billions in just one month is the whole cause of all our problems??? Riiiiiiiiigggggggggggggt????
Well, c'mon then Old Yellen...start hitting that CTRL-P, bitch! You know you want to. You know you've been waiting eagerly for that rush of power from smashing those keys and shitting Trillions outta your fat fucking ass, right bitch? Well get to it! That's the game, right?
Print away...print it all away...that's the solution to all our problems, right? Can't you all see it's working perfectly?
Well, it is working perfectly from the perspective of the elitist globalist NWO scum who are deliberately destroying America for their own evil ends. They've bankrupted everything else and now they need to destroy America and wipe out our wealth, freedom, liberty, and sovereignty.
They wanted slaves and now they've got us right where they want us. This is a Catch 22 situation and there's nothing we can do except prepare by stacking that phyzz, food, and supplies, because nothing is going to change until this country burns in civil war or WWIII breaks out. And then all we can do is fight to survive it and to win the day so that we can restart this country back to the original specs and imprison or kill all the Marxist traitors who worked so hard to destroy our Republic.
KRUGMANNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you are no longer part of the workforce, BUT you shoveled snow....you will be counted as having a job.
It's all due to global warming; it never snowed on the East Coast before in January. ?
Does using a snow blower count?
Dump Joe Kernen and replace him with Jim Cantore.
manufactoring minus 12000! USA USA USA R.I.P!
Well, frankly the inflation and GDP numbers are all fucked up and useless now, too. So there you go. Someone light a candle.
And next month, it will be because of the Super-Bowel.....
The reality is the poor numbers are because of the mourning of the passing of Phillp Seymore Hoffman.
IF weather is a factor in job numbers, what does that say about unemployment insurance?
Shovel ready... correction... Snow Shovel Ready
Not enogh to keep up with population growth, even if true.
More and moer government stiatistics are using the the "Anglo Irish Bank bailout estimate" methodology.
I wonder what the report would look like if they took out all the people having to work a second job to just make ends meet. First the weather and then those that retired will be the excuse. Conbsruction in my area is either dead or the builder is hiring illegals to compete.