Market Rises on Strong Jobs Report

September stats strong, August losses revised to gains
By Jonas Oransky,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 5, 2007 10:08 AM CDT
Market Rises on Strong Jobs Report
Serafim Martinez, left, and Raymond Soto stack cinder blocks at a 41-unit condominium project managed by Habitat for Humanity in the Ocean Hill neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007. Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit developer of affordable housing. Worries about...   (Associated Press)

Stocks surged this morning after a highly anticipated jobs report came back reassuringly strong, with 110,000 US workers gaining jobs in September. At the same time, the upsetting August jobs loss—which fueled rampant recession fears—was revised to a gain of 89,000. Growth exceeded expectations among economists polled by Bloomberg, who had estimated 100,000 new jobs.  At 11am EDT the Dow was up 51.46 to 14,025.77, the Nasdaq 23.76 to 2,757.33 and the S&P 8.58 to 1,551.42.

One manager predicted the market “is going to take a deep sigh of relief” after the August scare. The unanticipated August revision came mostly in government payrolls: Changes in school holidays hindered the Labor Department in counting teachers added for the new school year. Alcoa and GE both surged on the numbers this morning. (More job stories.)

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