ausserdem ist die abweichung nicht enorm: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Private-sector firms in the U.S. eliminated 84,000 jobs in December, according to the ADP employment report released Wednesday. It was the fewest jobs lost since March 2008. The private-sector has shed jobs for 23 months in a row. In November, a revised 145,000 jobs were lost compared with the 169,000 originally reported, ADP said. The ADP index does not include government jobs. The ADP jobs data come two days before the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its estimate of December nonfarm payrolls. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch are looking for payrolls to rise 10,000 in the BLS survey, the first gain in two years.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Monsanto Co. said Wednesday its fiscal first-quarter loss was $19 million, or 3 cents a share, compared to a profit of $556 million, or $1 a share, in the year-ago period. Total net sales fell to $1.7 billion from $2.6 billion. Analysts polled by FactSet Research were looking for nil earnings in the most recent quarter on sales of about $2 billion. For the full year, the St. Louis agricultural products company predicted earnings in a range of $2.85 to $3.11 a share, and ongoing earnings of $3.10 to $3.30 a share. Wall Street projected fiscal 2010 earnings of $3.35 a share, on average. Shares of Monsanto fell 1.7% premarket to $83.55. |