You have once again demonstrated that real time coverage of data release is unimportant. Who needs ratings anyway, right?
I think the number was put out sooner than it was suppose to, the market started dropping moments before it even came up on cnbc. :eek:
LOL it's CNBC, whose viewership has continued to decline this year despite all their gimmics, sfx, power panels, and octo-box discussions. Go figure. Hell, yesterday during lunch I surfed onto CNBC around 1:05 hoping to get some idea of the market action that day. To my amazement they were already doing a sit-down chat with some TV show host from Discovery Channel about "dirty jobs" .... then broke to a commercial, then came back to the Discovery guy. Talking about "maggot farming" or "chicken castrating" I might add, too!!! Unless they did a 30-sec summary @ the top of the hour, I don't think they did anything "substantive" on the market update until like 1:15 or so. Bleh. Sadly, I forgot I had Bloomberg available on that TV.....