Growth—And RevisionsThe January employment report will be released Friday, with U.S. payrolls figures offering a gauge of labor-market strength at the start of the year. For longer-term context, keep an eye on annual benchmark revisions to employment. A preliminary tabulation, released in August, showed employers added about 2 million jobs in the year through March 2019, 501,000 less than initially thought. Final benchmark revisions out Friday will spread that loss from April 2018 to March 2019. Other adjustments could...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 07, 2020 05:03 UTC