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Nicholas Santiago
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Nonfarm Private Payrolls for March increased to 230,000.
Unemployment Rate for March reports in at 8.8%.
Hourly Earnings for March remain unchanged, analyst expected an increase of 0.2%.
The March Average Workweek remains unchanged from February at 34.3 hours.
Stronger than expected non-farm payrolls growth and the continual the decline in the unemployment rate has driven the U.S. dollar sharply higher. With corporations in the U.S. adding 216k jobs in the month of March and the unemployment rate falling to its lowest level in 2 years, the latest labor market report reinforces optimism from Federal Reserve officials and supports the unwinding of emergency stimulus
Scenario 1 : NFP Exceeds 275k, Unemployment Rate Unchanged or Better – Dollar Positive
Scenario 2: NFP Less than 200k, Unemployment Rate ticks Higher, Nominal Revisions – Dollar Negative
Scenario 3: NFP Exceeds 250k, Unemployment Rate Increases – Depends on Size of NFP Surprise
Scenario 4: NFP Less than 200k, Unemployment Rate Unchanged or Better - Nominal Reaction in USD, Depends on Size of NFP Miss
The current forecast for non-farm payrolls calls for job growth of 190k but the projection by individual economists range from a low of 150k to a high of 295k. The only way the NFP report could be unambiguously positive for the U.S. dollar is if payrolls exceed 275k, the unemployment rate remains unchanged or improves along with an upward revision to the prior month’s report. If non-farm payrolls are strong but the unemployment rate ticks higher, the rally in the dollar could be limited. By the same token, if the February numbers are revised sharply higher and the March numbers either meet or fall short of expectations, the dollar could rally but its gains would probably be limited.
http://www.fx360.com/commentary/kathy/5206/how-the-dollar-could-react-to-payrolls.aspx
who said interest rates may have to increase by 75bp with the first rate hike coming as early as late 2011.
The reason why you aren't a millionaire (or on your way to becoming one) is really quite simple. You probably assume it's because you aren't earning enough money, but the truth is that for most people, whether or not you become a millionaire has very little to do with the amount of money you make. It's the way that you treat money in your daily life.
Here are 10 possible reasons you aren't a millionaire:
10. You Care What Your Ne
ighbors Think
If you're competing against them and their material possessions, you're wasting your hard-earned money on toys to impress them instead of building your wealth.
9. You Aren't Patient
Until the era of credit cards, it was difficult to spend more than you had. That is not the case today. If you have credit card debt because you couldn't wait until you had enough money to purchase something in cash, you are making others wealthy while keeping yourself in debt.
8. You Have Bad Habits
Whether it's smoking, drinking, gambling or some other bad habit, the habit is using up a lot of money that could go toward building wealth. Most people don't realize that the cost of their bad habits extends far beyond the immediate cost. Take smoking, for example: It costs a lot more than the pack of cigarettes purchased. It also negatively affects your wealth in the form of higher insurance rates and decreased value of your home.
7. You Have No Goals
It's difficult to build wealth if you haven't taken the time to know what you want. If you haven't set wealth goals, you aren't likely to attain them. You need to do more than state, "I want to be a millionaire." You need to take the time to set saving and investing goals on a yearly basis and come up with a plan for how to achieve those goals.
6. You Haven't Prepared
Bad things happen to the best of people from time to time, and if you haven't prepared for such a thing to happen to you through insurance, any wealth that you might have built can be gone in an instant.
5. You Try to Make a Quick Buck
For the vast majority of us, wealth doesn't come instantly. You may believe that people winning the lottery are a dime a dozen, but the truth is you're far more likely to get struck by lightning than win the lottery. This desire to get rich quickly likely extends into the way you invest, with similar results.
4. You Rely on Others to Take Care of Your Money
You believe that others have more knowledge about money matters, and you rely exclusively on their judgment when deciding where you should invest your money. Unfortunately, most people want to make money themselves, and this is their primary objective when they tell you how to invest your money. Listen to other people's advice to get new ideas, but in the end you should know enough to make your own investing decisions.
3. You Invest in Things You Don't Understand
You hear that Bob has made a lot of money doing it, and you want to get in on the gravy train. If Bob really did make money, he did so because he understood how the investment worked. Throwing in your money because someone else has made money without fully understanding how the investment works will keep you from being wealthy.
2. You're Financially Afraid
You are so scared of risk that you keep all your money in a savings account that is actually losing money when inflation is put into the equation, yet you refuse to move it to a place where higher rates of return are possible because you're afraid that you will lose money.
1. You Ignore Your Finances
You take the attitude that if you make enough, the finances will take care of themselves. If you currently have debt, it will somehow resolve itself in the future. Unfortunately, it takes planning to become wealthy. It doesn't magically happen to the vast majority of people.
In reality, it is probably not just one of the above bad habits that has kept you from becoming a millionaire, but a combination of a few of them. Take a hard look at the list, and do some reflecting. If you want to be a millionaire, it's well within your power, but you'll have to face the issues that are currently keeping you from creating that wealth before you will have a chance to call yourself one.
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10345796/1/10-reasons-you-arent-rich.html
