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Employment growth to drop back to trend

After the blowout 517,000 gain in January, we expect a more modest 200,000 increase in non-farm payrolls in February. But given the potential impact of weather and seasonality effects in January there is the possibility of another shock last month, albeit mainly to the downside this time.

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