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The Market Economy’s Focus Today

by Allan Robinson on August 1, 2008

A lot happened yesterday and overnight, dear reader. It was a buffet of market economic information. We’ve laid a serve of the important stuff for you below.

But the share market will probably have its blinkers on. The only thing it’ll take notice of is the Dow Jones. And the Dow Jones had another shocker. Right at the end of a good week too.

Those late-week American employment figures we mentioned earlier …well, they proved more disruptive than a dog in a bucket of cats. More Americans filed for unemployment last week than any in week since 2003.

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