The stock market, you would want the Labor Departments monthly nonfarm payroll number. If the number is strong, you want to buy stocks if its weak, you want to sell today we got a barn burner of a number, 222,000 new jobs hallelujah with every area of the economy generating, which is why the dow rallied 94 points and the nasdaq and s p both advanced. When i wrote this book, i spent a tremendous amount of time trying to figure out what mattered to the market over the years running by Charitable Trust. Again and again, over those 15 years, the answer has been one single number. Growth is king theres been so much gloom lately that this number is busted, making me feel like a good reason stocks have rally sod hard lately. Employment growth means money to buy a car or a house heres why the housing stocks were taking a ride do i need to explain how hiring helps the banks and techs and industrials. The Labor Department gives you a very good report right now its health care and these stocks ha