friday’s nonfarm payrolls report for february is likely to come in way above the consensus estimate repeating the trend seen in january’s data according to a pair of wall street firms deutsche bank’s economists expect to see a job gain of 300000 above the 215000 consensus estimate citing february’s mild weather as one likely influence aneta markowska and thomas simons economists at jefferies said they expect to see a gain of 290000 for last month a strongerthanexpected jobs report has the potential to trigger another round of repricing in financial markets similar to the one seen after january’s nonfarm payroll report as of monday morning a day before the start of federal reserve chairman jerome powell’s semiannual testimony to congress all three major us stock indexes were moving higher while treasury yields were mixed