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The report also showed hiring intentions slid 13% from a year earlier to 5,306, marking the weakest total for any January in the firm's records back to 2009.
We did get two interest rate decisions this morning.
The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged as officials assessed the economic toll of a rally in the euro and renewed trade unpredictability.
The deposit rate was left at 2%.
The ECB did not offer guidance on future steps, reiterating that incoming data will steer decision-making.
Meanwhile, the Bank of England came within a vote of cutting interest rates as policymakers split 5-4 in favor of holding at 3.75%.
The pound extended losses after the decision, having been under pressure as a fresh round of political turbulence weighed on U.K.
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President Trump has given a wide-ranging interview ahead of Super Bowl Sunday, and in the conversation with NBC News, the president said he personally decided to pull 700 federal agents from Minnesota amid the uproar over two American deaths in Minneapolis.
The president said he's not happy about the killings of Alex Pretty and Renee Good, and ICE isn't either.
A Quinnipiac poll shows 63% of voters think the administration has not given an honest account of Pretty's death.
When it comes to the Fed, President Trump also said he would not have picked Kevin Warsh to lead the central bank if he wanted to raise interest rates.
The president was asked what he thinks about Fed independence.
And in the NBC News interview, President Trump said he plans to stay out of the fight between Netflix and Paramount Skydance over Warner Bros.
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And he says if he wins his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and the Treasury Department over an unauthorized release of his tax returns, he'd donate the proceeds to charity.
Meanwhile, CNN is reporting that President Trump will launch the TrumpRx pricing site today.
It named people familiar with the matter, and this is the Trump administration's website for direct-to-consumer drug sales.