The unemployment rate upticked to 7.8%, and the jobs added number was mediocre as expected, with 155,000 jobs being added.
Stocks rallied on beginning of the year enthusiasm.
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"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863