No Sleeping In as Stock Jocks Await Good Friday Jobs Report
Construction workers on a job site on March 25, 2015 in Houston, Texas.
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Yousef Abbasi will be checking his phone on Good Friday morning, thanks to the U.S. government and phases of the moon.
Technically, he has the day off, with U.S. stock exchanges shut for the holiday. But the Labor Department’s monthly employment report, one of the most closely watched gauges of the U.S. economy, means the chief market strategist of JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC will be up early.