"Were he to return, then the expectation is that he's managed to secure a consensus of sorts,at least to get the government formed and let it get on with its daily business."

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Any figure that strays too far from that consensus expectation would likely be a market-mover.

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But its income, though not sales, came in slightly higher than the consensus expectation.

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With some economists downwardly revising their forecasts, the consensus expectation was for a roughly 50, 000 gain in non-farm payrolls.

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