BUY (The shutdown didn't wreck everything, the jobless rate's still weak) NO, SELL (Tapering sooner) The jobless rate was 7.3 per cent, while 60k more jobs were added in revisions to August and September. Click for full tables on jobs added by industry and reasons for unemployment. Hourly earnings (up 2 cents) were still weak though. There's an epic issue with divergence of the establishment survey and the household survey, which was down a whole 735k because of shutdown weirdness. Which might also make the participation rate (62.8 per cent) less than useful this time around. There's a whole BLS FAQ on how the shutdown blew up their survey... Consensus had been 125k according to Reuters... with a survey spread of 50k to 195k. Interestingly, private payrolls (212k) seriously beat consensus (165k).