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Here's how the stock market may trade the April jobs report, according to JPMorgan

Cnbc · · 294 words · By Alex Harring
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What to know about Here's how the stock market may trade the April jobs report, according to JPMorgan

As Wall Street counts down to Friday's jobs report, JPMorgan's trading desk sees several potential outcomes that could move the market.

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What happened

As Wall Street counts down to Friday's jobs report, JPMorgan's trading desk sees several potential outcomes that could move the market.

Why it matters

Economists polled by Dow Jones expect nonfarm payrolls to have grown by 55,000 in April, down from the increase of 178,000 seen in March.

Common ground

The unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 4.3%.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Economists polled by Dow Jones expect nonfarm payrolls to have grown by 55,000 in April”
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The claim states economists expected 55,000 growth in April. However, the provided web search evidence explicitly states that 'Economists had anticipated 138,000' and another source mentions a market expectation for an increase of '60,000'. There is no evidence supporting the 55,000 figure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (also known simply as Dow Jones) is an American publishing firm owned by News Corp, and led by CEO Almar Latour. The company publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Mark…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_&_Company
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow (), is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States. The DJIA is one of the olde…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC is a joint venture between S&P Global and the CME Group, that was announced in 2011 and later launched in 2012. It produces, maintains, licenses, and markets stock market in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_Dow_Jones_Indices
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Claim 2: “The monthly ADP National Employment Report on Wednesday reported a better-than-expected, 109,000 job expansion in private payrolls in March”
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The claim attributes the 109,000 job expansion to March. However, the evidence from the ADP National Employment Report and LinkedIn explicitly states that private employers added 109,000 jobs in APRIL, not March.
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web search NEUTRAL — Published May 6, 2026 Private-sector job growth reached 109,000 in April, exceeding forecasts and notching the biggest gain in more than a year, said payroll provider ADP on Wednesday.
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/private-sector-adds-109k…
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web search NEUTRAL — Private employers added 109,000 jobs in April Health care's continued strength, along with a rebound in trade, transportation, and utilities, fueled last month's acceleration in hiring. It was the fas…
https://adpemploymentreport.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — The jobs report and pay insights use ADP's fine-grained anonymized and aggregated payroll data to provide a representative picture of the private-sector labor market. The report details the current mo…
https://adp-ri-nrip-static.adp.com/artifacts/us_ner/20250402…
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Claim 3: “down from the increase of 178,000 seen in March”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that nonfarm payrolls increased by 178,000 in March. This is reported across different web search results and news summaries.
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web search NEUTRAL — Non Farm Payrolls in the United States increased by 178 thousand in March of 2026.The US economy added 178K jobs in March 2026, the most since December 2024, following a revised decline of 133K in Feb…
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/non-farm-payrolls
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web search NEUTRAL — Nonfarm Payrolls measures the change in the number of people employed during the previous month, excluding the farming industry.“March’s 178,000 BLS jobs report came in nearly three times Wall Street’…
https://www.investing.com/economic-calendar/nonfarm-payrolls…
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web search NEUTRAL — "Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.3 percent," the agency reported.Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by …
https://newsable.asianetnews.com/business/us-labour-market-a…
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Claim 4: “The unemployment rate is expected to hold steady at 4.3%”
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Four independent cross-references (CNBC, BBC, The Guardian) confirm that the unemployment rate was expected to be or hold steady at 4.3%.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — the unemployment rate is expected to remain at 4.3%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/03/stock-market-today-live-upda…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Economists polled by FactSet expect job additions of 65,000 with the unemployment rate staying unchanged at 4.3%
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/software-stocks-stage-a-come…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Employers added 178,000 jobs, far more than expected, while the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk165g4vv3o?at_medium=RSS…
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Claim 5: “Michael Feroli, chief economist at JPMorgan, anticipates that the economy added 50,000 jobs last month”
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While the evidence confirms Michael Feroli is the chief economist at JPMorgan and that he discussed the April jobs report, none of the provided search results mention him specifically predicting or anticipating a figure of 50,000 jobs for the previous month.
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web search NEUTRAL — Join Mike Feroli, J.P. Morgan's chief U.S. economist, and Alexa Hanelin from the North America Rate Sales team as they discuss the better-than-expected numbers from the April employment report. They b…
https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/podcast-hub/research-recap…
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web search NEUTRAL — What does the latest jobs report say about the economy and Fed's next moves? Mike Feroli, #JPMorgan's Chief U.S. Economist, explains what's behind the concen...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPYTy_hKKuM
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web search NEUTRAL — Feroli mentioned that the bank now expects the US economy to grow by 0.6% in 2025, up from the earlier prediction of 0.2%. (Image: Reuters) According to JPMorgan's Chief US Economist Michael ...
https://www.financialexpress.com/policy/economy-jpmorgan-rev…
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