Ahead of the Tape
[Today's Market Forecast]</br></br>Looking for Work</br></br>If they keep it up, Wall Street economists may be able to report personally on the jobs market from the actual unemployment lines.</br></br>Wall Street expects that 125,000 workers were added to payrolls in March. This is certainly a case of things being down so long they are starting to look like up. Such a figure would be objectively weak, but the stock market would breathe more easily and the bond market could sell off if the number comes in at that estimate or higher.</br></br>As in the past several months, economists and investors believe in their hearts that the number will be better than expected and that the jobs market is better than the government's figures suggest.