Where did you get that headline, EagleSmack? Stocks drop? The headline in the link given by oyu is more accurate, it says ‘stocks zigzag’, not stocks drop. And quite right too, just now I checked DOW, it is down by a whopping 9 points.
Unemployment numbers do not really affect stock prices that much. Stock prices are mainly related to the profitability of the companies, and that is not necessarily related to unemployment. Many times when a company announces layoffs, its stock goes up, because investors think that the layoffs may help the productivity at the company and make the company more profitable.
Anyway, so it is total nonsense to say that ‘stocks drop’, they haven’t dropped yet. DOW is still above 10,000 (10,002 to be exact).