Employment statistics results

April Canada Number of new employees last time -101.07 million forecast -400,000 results -1.993 million
April Canada Unemployment rate Last time 7.8% Forecast 18.0% Result 13.0%
April USA Change in the number of employees in the non-agricultural sector [Last month] Last time-701,000 people Forecast-220,000 people Result-205,000 people
April USA Unemployment rate last time 4.4% Forecast 16.0% Result 14.7%
April USA Average hourly wage [Compared with the previous month] Last time 0.4% Expected 0.4% Result 4.7%
April USA Average hourly wage [YoY change] Previous 3.1% Forecast 3.3% Result 7.9%

Not worse than expected.

The big flow is generally risk-on.

US stock prices are rising, and in addition, buying is coming in to the USD.

Although the USD strength was unexpected, we are buying USDCHF according to the flow.

Currently, the power balance in 15 minutes is

USD > CAD = CHF > NZD > EUR > GBP > AUD > JPY

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