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It's connecting the dots.

It's giving readers an ability to synthesize

a number of different perspectives

so they can understand how the greater whole works,

because nothing really occurs in isolation anymore.

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This is Bloomberg surveillance. The jobs numbers are out and it does look

like employers took a pause in the month of April. 160,000 jobs total created a hundred and seventy one thousand in the private sector

manufacturing payrolls up by four thousand the unemployment rate holds at five

percent the only thing it matched estimates average hourly earnings up 3 tenths.

Now they say on an year over year basis that pushes average hourly earnings up to 2. percent. Some numbers out of the lower

levels of the report we can tell you that we had a net revision of

negative 19,000. So the month of February was revised lower, the month of March

revised lower, and it looks like at this point a disappointing jobs report and with a revision in Mike

McKee is 7,215 out of 2008 as we print out the report for Jim Glassman.

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