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Economic Update: An Upbeat U.S. Jobs Report Adds Welcome Cheer To The Holidays

The U.S. added 203,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in November, an encouraging sign for the economy as the holiday season quickly approaches. Could this upbeat news affect the Fed’s tapering plans?
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S&P Capital IQ, a business line of the McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is a leading provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, investment advisors and wealth managers, corporations and universities around the world. We provide a broad suite of capabilities designed to help track performance, generate alpha, identify new… trading and investment ideas, and perform risk analysis and mitigation strategies. Through leading desktop solutions such as Capital IQ, Global Credit Portal and MarketScope Advisor desktops; enterprise solutions such as S&P Securities Evaluations, Global Data Solutions , and Compustat; and research offerings including Leveraged Commentary & Data, Global Market Intelligence, and company and funds research, S&P Capital IQ sharpens financial intelligence into the wisdom today's investors need.

The U.S. added 203,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in November, an encouraging sign for the economy as the holiday season quickly approaches. Could this upbeat news affect the Fed’s tapering plans? In this segment, Standard & Poor’s U.S. Economist Satyam Panday explains how the situation could play out.

 

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