Where the market is now

Where the market is now The latest job market numbers dropped this morning and, if you were waiting for a September hiring surge, it didn't happen. Just 29,000 new jobs were created in September, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%. Even more telling: job growth has averaged just 45,000 per month over the past 12 months. And the revisions aren't great either. July's numbers were revised from a gain of 21,000 jobs to a LOSS of 10,000, while August was revised down from 162,000 to...