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along with the weekend's top news and analysis.

Hello, today is Sunday March 3rd and I'm your host Kim Kahn.

The top story to look out for this week.

The February jobs report is due on Friday with expectations for payroll's growth to ease back.

January showed a whopping rise of more than 350,000 non-farm payrolls.

Economists spec that they rose by 190,000 last month. The unemployment rate is seen

staying at 3.7%, average hourly earnings are forecast to have risen by 0.2%, down from the

0.6% rise seen in the previous month.

Also on the labor front, January Joltz report is due,

along with the ADP's measure of private sector employment for February

and the weekly initial claims figures. The numbers come in a little more

than a week before the next Federal Reserve meeting. Expectations for the March FOMC meeting

have whipsawed and the persistently tight labor market has had a lot to do with it.

Fed funds futures are now pricing in a 95% chance that the Fed keeps rates steady.

Back in late December, the odds were 90% that a cut was coming.

Apollo management chief economist Torsten's

Sloc argues that the Fed won't cut rates until 2025. He notes that the Fed's

hawkish pivot has given a strong tailwind to growth since December, and the labor market remains tight,

with jobless claims at low levels, and wage inflation between 4 and 5 percent.

In addition, underlying measures of trend inflation are going up.

The market was expecting six rate cuts as

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