Jobs Report Contest - Dec '14

[Frixxxx]

+229K -- 5.7%

 

[RealMoneyIssues]

+229K -- 5.7%

nevermind, forgot about the time difference (and we are on "our" Friday)...

 

[pamkk]

297,000... 5.5%

 

[remark]

253,000 5.6%

 

[Minnow]

243,000 5.7%

 

[Firedog]

+263K and 5.5%

 

[jpcavin]

243,000 5.7%

I hope it's 242,500 :toung:

 

[GUCHI]

252,400. 5.5

 

[tsptalk]

45 minutes before the deadline. At that point I'll close the thread and reopen it in the morning after the report is released.

 

[tsptalk]

Actual: +252,000, 5.6%

Winner!... Guchi, err... remark!

253,000 5.6%

252,400. 5.5

What do you think? Guchi! Oh, man! Say it isn't so! The thousands thing...

each guess must be rounded to 1000's. (ex: +201,000, -14,000, +195,000, +176,000, -5,000, etc. - no 100's)

Oh, hell. I'll give them both one.

Nice job guys!

remark got the unemployment rate correct so he gets this...

Guchi wins this mug...

Please PM or email me your shipping info!

Thank you for playing, everyone!

 

[Minnow]

I hope it's 242,500 :toung:

MY BAD Promise it wasn't on purpose. It was 252,000 anyways... gotta fine tune your hopium a bit.

 

[RealMoneyIssues]

OOPS, sorry

I thought you couldn't go over... my bad

 

[tsptalk]

Leave this to the professionals, RMI. Now you got uscfanhawaii all excited.

Remark and Guchi were the closest. See above.

 

[tsptalk]

I see a couple of folks used hundreds. Maybe we need to say hundreds will be drop from any guess?

each guess must be rounded to 1000's. (ex: +201,000, -14,000, +195,000, +176,000, -5,000, etc. - no 100's)

 

[nick]

OOPS, sorry

I thought you couldn't go over... my bad

This isn't the Price is Right... :toung:

 

[uscfanhawaii]

Leave this to the professionals, RMI. Now you got uscfanhawaii all excited.

Remark and Guchi were the closest. See above.

WAIT....What?! It should be 'without going over'! But I would be happy to share with the 'other' winners. I mean, since you are bending rules and sharing anyway....