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Mid-day Update

PODCAST: Jobs versus interest rates

David Brancaccio Jul 8, 2013
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Mid-day Update

PODCAST: Jobs versus interest rates

David Brancaccio Jul 8, 2013
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The yield on the 10-year Treasury note — the benchmark for U.S. interest rates — was up this morning following Friday’s somewhat positive jobs report.

Is ok to pay to get the jump on market-moving news? Thomson Reuters is expected to suspend the practice of selling so-called sneak peeks of certain economic data to select clients today.

Monday is day one of the sequester-driven defense cuts, including a one-day a week closure of all domestic military grocery stores.

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