Folks, the July national jobs report comes out tomorrow, and, as usual, all eyes will be on the numbers within. As you’ll recall, June’s figures were disappointing to say the least, and as a result, there’s not a lot of consensus on what tomorrow will bring. Non-farm payroll expectations on the low end are in [...]

Folks, earlier this morning we got two lukewarm economic reports. On the jobs front: for the first time since April, the weekly unemployment claims fell below 400,000.  It wasn’t by much—the seasonally adjusted number of new claims came in at 398,000—but even that small downtick caused the markets to jump. As far as housing, the [...]