Employment Report: Household and Establishment Surveys Pointing in Very Different Directions This Morning...
BLS:
Unemployment rate falls to 9.0% in January; payroll employment changes little (+36,000) The unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage point to 9.0 percent in January, while nonfarm payroll employment changed little (+36,000). Employment rose in manufacturing and retail and declined in construction and transportation...
I want a trained professional to analyze this. It is not unusual for the series to do something odd around Christmastide. It is not unusual for the series to diverge. Not this much.