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Below are the expectations of the biggest banks for today's Nonfarm Payroll number to be announced in just over two hours: Morgan Stanley +135K Barclays Capital +150K Goldman Sachs +150K Bank of America +160K JPMorgan +165K HSBC +179K Deutsche Bank +180K UBS +190K A quick and dirty summary from RanSquawk:

Initial Reaction The establishment survey reports of +236,000 job. For the first time in four months the establishment survey was accompanied by a healthy +170,000 surge in the household survey. Let's dig deeper. The economy added a whopping 446,000 part-time jobs. Thus, the economy shed 276,000 full-time jobs. Those part-time jobs were supposedly "on purpose". It's fair to point out the volatile nature of part-time statistics, but the 446,000 increase is unusually large.

James Picerno submits: Today’s employment report for February suggests that the stock market rally that began last September correctly anticipated rebound 2.0 in the post-recession period. Private sector employment rose by a net 222,000 last month, the most since last April and a sharp rise from January’s feeble 68,000 advance. Even better, job growth was widespread across the economy.

Bill Luby submits: Any week the employment report is on the schedule, the big story is likely to be the nonfarm payrolls and last week was no exception. While the census employment cycle has lately skewed the headline number, the private payroll data, hours worked and average hourly earnings indicate that there are continued signs of improvement, small though they may be.

Bill Luby submits: Any week that the employment report is released, that data is automatically in the running for the chart of the week. Given that the Bureau of Labor Statistics corrected some of the historical data series and stocks rallied sharply off of the not-as-bad-as-feared payroll losses, this seemed like a good time to update a chart that has always been a big hit and I that I have not published in seven months.