| This is Bill Roller of BR Capital with the KUIK Closing Market Report for Friday, April, 6 | |||||||
| The stock market was closed and the bond and commodities markets closed early in honor of Good Friday. | |||||||
| Direction | Change | Units | |||||
| 30 Year Treasury | Down | (5.8) | basis points | 3.32 | |||
| Employers in the U.S. added 120,000 jobs in March, the fewest in five months. Economists expected 210,000. The unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent from 8.3 percent the month before as people stopped looking for work. | |||||||
| U.S. consumer borrowing rose less than forecast in February, restrained by a drop in credit-card debt, according to the Federal Reserve. Credit increased $8.7 billion, the least in four months, after a revised $18.6 billion gain in January that was revised upward. | |||||||
| Always serving the West Side first, I am Bill Roller of BR Capital for AM 1360 KUIK. | |||||||
| http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-06/bernanke-warning-on-jobs-vindicated-by-march-payrolls-report.html | |||||||
| http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-06/consumer-credit-in-u-s-rose-less-than-forecast-in-february.html | |||||||
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