Alan Ruskin Quotes

Non-farm payroll numbers of over 300,000 are pretty much consistent with economic growth of about 4 percent, (and) that's way above trend.

- Alan Ruskin

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The overall trend in orders is going to be south over time... I wouldn't use this as indicative of some impending recovery in the manufacturing sector. - Alan Ruskin

Employment slipped for the third time since November, and is now back below October levels... Since weakness in services employment has dominated the soft employment trends in this cycle, this data will tend to deflate rising expectations of a decent payrolls number. - Alan Ruskin

While the data is clearly dollar positive, I would expect that the market will quickly shift back to the attention it is giving to Fed policy. - Alan Ruskin