Primary. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im richelle carey. A very rough start for stocks today as traders cling to the negative aspect of a mixed unemployment report. You can see things changes as we speak. Our economics correspondent patric patric Patricia Sabga is here. This is definitely a mixed bag, and one thing we should also state, richelle is that right now the markets are tending to really focus on the negative. The headline number, the economy added 151,000 jobs last month. That was below what a lot of economists were looking for. On the bright side, though, the Unemployment Rate went down to 4. 9 , and another positive in the report was the Labor Force Participation rate. Thats the number of people either looking for work or have a job. That went up. So that is a positive sign. Another positive sign was average hourly wages. They had a real healthy bump. So this is a very, very good thing, because we have been wanting wages to pick up. But of course, the
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