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Markets under pressure from jobs miss and oil spike Two big stories drove market volatility on Friday, March 6. And they’re pulling the Federal Reserve in opposite directions. First, jobs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics February employment report came in far below expectation.1 Consensus was for +60,000 new jobs; the actual number was -92,000. Last…

Markets react to strikes on Iran Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel launched a joint military operation targeting key Iranian leadership. Iran’s supreme leader, who had been in power since the late 1980s, was among those killed. This is a significant geopolitical development, and it’s already having a short-term effect on markets. Some of…