A miss on the headline and a fairly big downward revision on last month.

The market has gotten a little jumpy as they start rejigging NFP estimations. USD/JPY fell to 102.34 from 102.46 and GBP/USD has taken the ACB’s to the cleaners breaking up to the next level of resistance at 1.6732. EUR/USD breaks through the sticky 1.3745 but falls just shy of 1.3750.

Here’s the break down in the numbers;

  • Small bus adds 59k vs 75k prior
  • Medium +35k vs +55k prior
  • Large +44k vs +34k prior
  • Manufacturing +1k vs +12k in Jan
  • Construction +14k vs +25k prior
  • Financials +2k vs zero last month
ADP jobs report 05 03 2014

ADP jobs report 05 03 2014