Economics
Trump Twitter Risk Adds a New Wild Card to Friday’s Jobs Report
- Traders on heightened alert after president’s June 1 preview
- June nonfarm payrolls data to be released at 8:30 a.m. Friday
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Kenneth Broux, a currency and rates strategist at Societe Generale SA in London, typically arrives at work around 7 a.m., grabs a coffee and settles into his sunlit desk. And on Friday, fixating on Twitter will play an outsize role in his morning routine.
Broux will join traders, analysts and economists around the world in monitoring Donald Trump’s social-media accounts in the hours leading up to America’s monthly employment report -- suddenly an essential task. At least the five-hour time difference with Washington will leave him better-rested than his bleary-eyed counterparts across the Atlantic.