The odds have certainly shortened on a decent payrolls number.
Although the sell-off followed some disappointing economic data, equity markets quickly rebounded once decent American non-farm payroll numbers had given investors some reassurance.
The Blue Jays, trying to cut their payroll, have several decent left-handed hitters available, including first baseman DAVID SEGUI and catcher DARREN FLETCHER, and the Yankees will eventually need a left-handed replacement for designated hitter DARRYL STRAWBERRY, who was suspended for a year.
Good for that tho April 4, 2014 2.25pm BST Rob Carnell of ING says the 192,000 increase in the non-farm payroll is a "pretty decent figure".
"That's allowing us to grow payrolls at a pretty decent clip without pushing down the unemployment rate".
Payrolls expanded by a decent 163,000 in July, but the unemployment rate, which is calculated on the basis of a different survey, ticked up, going from 8.2percentto8.3percentr cent.
Photograph: /Markit Chris Williamson of Markit reckons the underlying picture remains robust -- but policymakers will want to see activity bouncing back this month, and decent job creation in Friday's non-farm payroll stats.
The payrolls number taken alone is a decent one; it beat the market's expectations of about 100,000 jobs being created.
Cut pork-barrel projects and payrolls bloated by patronage, for example, and decent education and health care might become a universal right, not a favour for the few.
And so is the fact, highlighted by Jason Furman, the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, that at least some of the expansion in payrolls is taking place in industries that pay decent wages.
