Mohamed A. El-Erian , Columnist

Eight Ways to Look at the March Jobs Report

There are more reasons for optimism than gloom, but there's work ahead for Congress and the Fed.

April 7, 2017 at 2:52 PM UTC

Mohamed A. El-Erian is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former chief executive officer of Pimco, he is president of Queens’ College, Cambridge; chief economic adviser at Allianz SE; and chair of Gramercy Fund Management. He is author of “The Only Game in Town.”

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On the day after the U.S. military strike against Syria and in the midst of the meeting between Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping, Friday’s monthly jobs-data release is attracting less attention than usual. Yet the report on the health of the labor market in March is important for assessing the underlying strength of the economy, and it has policy implications. Here are eight main takeaways:

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