U.S. Jobs Report

EghtesadOnline: Most of the time, it would be very foolish to suggest that a single data release could determine a policy decision by the Federal Reserve. After all, Fed officials -- board governors, regional presidents or senior staff members -- pride themselves on considering a wide array of numbers and multidimensional models. Yet the jobs report for August that will be released Friday could well come very close to being the exception.

EghtesadOnline: A solid U.S. jobs report for September reinforced expectations among Wall Street's top banks that the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates by the end of the year, according to a Reuters poll conducted on Friday.