Reply #45: No evidence payrolls number leaked, Labor Department says

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http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7B22E97351%2D8725%2D4DB7%2DA102%2D307DC044473B%7D&dist=newsfinder&symbol=&siteid=mktw

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The Labor Department has no evidence that the June payrolls number was leaked before the 8:30 a.m. Eastern release time, a spokesman said Friday. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is looking into rumors that the numbers were leaked, the spokesman said. "We have no evidence that the BLS released it early," said Gary Steinberg, a BLS spokesman. As for rumors that someone else may have leaked it, "no one has anything solid, just rumors," Steinberg said. On Friday, the BLS reported that nonfarm payrolls rose by 121,000 in June, less than the 175,000 expected by private economists. Financial markets reacted vigorously to the report.

With all of the insider trading deals and the cross-over of financial types to government jobs under this mal-administration that leaks whatever it wants and prosecutes everything it finds politically embarrassing, a leak from their lying BLS would not surprise me in the least.