ADP National Employment Report

This is the bomb of economic data. It covers employment levels for non-farm payrolls, and a whole bunch of other core elements that comprise the health, or lack thereof, of the economy.

It's called the ADP National Employment Report in the same way Levi's Football Stadium is called, well...Levi's. ADP is a private, automatic data processing company that works with Moody's to pull this information and send it out to the masses of PhDs in economics to digest every month.

The report comprises four elements. First is the delta in payroll, divided by business size and industry. The second focuses on progress in small business. The third analyzes the health or growth of franchises like McDonalds and Denny's. And the fourth regionalizes national economic ups and downs, focusing on eight states: California, New York, New Jersey, Florida, Illinois, Texas, Euphoria, and Depression.