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This is shaping up to be another wacky session - the Dow opened up over 100 points, but is now down about 40 points. Investors don't know where to turn. As for the employment report, a gain of 117,000 jobs (154,000 in the private sector) gets back to the levels earlier this year, and points to sluggish and choppy growth. Here's the BLS release.
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Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.