Private-sector analysts have often been wrong about unemployment data, which are volatile.
But confusion over the unemployment data caused rates to bounce back.
They do not show up in the unemployment data.
There's more to the unemployment data than the headline figures.
The federal labor office said the unemployment data reflected the impact of a slowdown in economic growth.
The unemployment data released last Friday provided evidence that the job market is improving, but more slowly than the economy as a whole.
The unemployment data could change the tone of a market that rallied strongly in July.
The new unemployment data provided mixed signals about the economy's underlying strength.
The new unemployment data showed that the economy lost 300,000 jobs in December alone.
Bond prices and yields traded in a narrow range, with the market on hold ahead of new unemployment data.