The Dow is rallying Friday after a better-than-expected jobs report showed that the U.S. added 204,000 jobs in October. While the news was a pleasant surprise, it also ushered in renewed fears of tapering by the Fed. In our lead story on Investor Beat, Motley Fool analysts Morgan Housel and David Hanson discuss what individual investors should focus on instead of the jobs report and other economic data.
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Here’s Why the Jobs Report Doesn’t Matter
Here's why investors shouldn't care about the monthly jobs numbers.
About the Author
Morgan Housel is the best-selling author of The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever. A former economics and finance columnist for Fool.com and analyst for Motley Fool One, he currently serves as a partner at The Collaborative Fund and on the board of directors at Markel.
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