Jobs report

• Although signs had pointed to a strengthening economy earlier this year, the jobs report Friday came with a message: Dont get ahead of yourself.
(San Jose Mercury News)
• The March jobs report released today was disappointing. Economists had expected the nation's employers to increase their payrolls by about 205,000 net, but instead payrolls increased by just 120,000.
(New York Times Blogs)
• On any other Jobs Friday, the downbeat employment report would've generated a frantic reaction on Wall Street. But on this Friday, few are fretting.
(Wall Street Journal)
• Republican Mitt Romney, seizing on the slowest reported jobs growth in five months, said President Barack Obama's economic policies have failed and "the president's excuses have run out.
(Bloomberg)
• There was nothing good about the Good Friday jobs report. But was the slowdown in hiring in March bad enough for the Federal Reserve to once again consider more stimulus for the economy? No.
(Yahoo Finance)
• Jared Bernstein worries about todays dismal jobs report: [W]e may be at the beginning of another downshift in job growth or March's disappointing report could be an anomalous blip down in a better underlying trend.
(Daily Beast)
• Todays jobs report: Good news or bad news? Depends on who you talk to.
(YAHOO!)
• March's disappointing jobs report shows the reversal of warm weather hiring, but also some troubling trends that are already sparking talk of more Federal Reserve easing.
(CNBC)
• The lackluster report comes as the job market appeared to gaining steam. And as NPRs Scott Horsley reports, it complicated President Obamas reelection message.
(NPR News)
• The dollar fell against most major currencies in light trading Friday following a weak U.S. jobs report. The Labor Department said the U.S. economy added 120,000 jobs in March, down from more than 200,000 in each of the previous three months.
(ABC News)