It’s the first ‘big day’ of the year in a year that feels much longer than 9-days already.
The non-farm payrolls report is due at the bottom of the hour along with the Canadian jobs report. Finally past the shutdown fog
The consensus is 60K jobs with a 4.5% unemployment rate. The jobs report is always a roll of the dice but the preview outlines why I think risks are skewed towards a higher number.
The Canadian number is always volatile and the prior was +53.6K so there’s likely to be a pullback
Locked and loaded for a Friday jobs day with eyes on the Supreme Court