this number wasn't bad enough, it needed to be 300k+ and worse on unemployment- instead they are going to be delayed for the next sample period. next month is going to be a shit show could see 350k+ nfp
Many were expecting a 250,000-300,000 job loss, but since it was such a great number -247,000 p ) the market is cheering such a fantastic number.
Maybe they will be revised to 350k or maybe to 150k. BLS NFP numbers have a sampling error of +/- 100k. This goes in both directions.
this 4/02/08 article gives a breakdown on how the rate's calculated explaining why unemployment may be double that reported: http://seekingalpha.com/article/70958-lies-damn-lies-and-the-unemployment-rate this one was published Nov 7 with additional data - check the difference in the charts: http://seekingalpha.com/article/104846-the-real-unemployment-numbers?source=article_lb_articles