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ADP (ADP) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.
ADP's research arm will begin publishing a Canada pay insights report beginning Sept. 3, providing what it said will be an independent labor market indicator of wage trends based on anonymized payroll data representing about 1 million workers in the country.
This is the fourth-straight month of job growth from the BLS, which we haven't seen since the spring of 2025.
ADP's AI gains, margin expansion, dividends and liquidity support its outlook, even as PEO margin pressure, soft volumes and competition pose risks.
Ending the trading week early with Friday's observance of Independence Day, we cram together the last two “Jobs Week” data points: Weekly Jobless Claims and monthly non-farm employment. Pre-market indexes advanced further into the green immediately following these releases: the Dow is +300 points, the S&P 500 +35 and the Nasdaq +240 points.
Consumer confidence improved as oil prices eased after a U.S.-Iran truce, but inflation, labor worries, and rate-hike expectations keep WLY, TSN, ARKO, and NYT in focus as defensive picks.
Pre-market futures begin the first trading session of the second half of calendar 2026 in the red so far. Considering myriad stresses on the global marketplace over the first half of the year, with oil supply shocks from the closing of the Strait of Hormuz and tariff costs rebalancing global trade at the top of the list, markets are doing quite well.
At +98K, ADP jobs growth is right in line with the trailing 4-month average.
The gold market is trading higher on Wednesday morning after the latest employment data showed the U.S. labor market adding fewer jobs than expected, according to private sector payrolls processor ADP.On Wednesday, ADP announced that 98,000 jobs were created in September. The report was worse than expectations, as consensus forecasts called for job gains of 113,000.
ADP (ADP) was a big mover last session on higher-than-average trading volume. The latest trend in earnings estimate revisions might not help the stock continue moving higher in the near term.
We begin a new holiday-shortened trading week (we'll observe Independence Day this year on Friday, July 3rd, which will make for a nice three-day weekend) looking at jobs numbers from last week, last month and before. We call it “Jobs Week” in this column — each month we're treated to quality updates of the domestic labor market.