A few brokerages were expecting even higher than 190k, my point was only that I think a lot of these estimates get mentally adjusted by the market when the ADP number is so weak as it was. In essence, the bad news was preannounced on Wednesday. Who knows, though, the market may be in ' buy the rumor sell the news' mode regardless of whether the news is bad or good.
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