By Musabbir Mazhar In the US, the jobs report came out with non-farm payrolls increasing 20,000 for the month of February 2019, which largely falls short of market consensus expectations of 192,000 jobs. This is not good news – to put into perspective, the average job increase was 223,000 each month in 2018 and 311,000 […]
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CAD dollar weaker; market update: 2nd Jan 2014
By Musabbir Mazhar The CAD/USD exchange rate was at 0.9384, up 9 basis points – The currency pair was stable at the close on Thursday. As the number for initial US jobless claims for the week ending December 27 dropped by 2000 to 339,000 – the demand for the US dollar strengthened. China’s manufacturing data […]
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