This probably isn’t a report that’s going to create a 200 pip swing in the US dollar but it’s still non-farm payrolls and it’s always a report the can change the story.

The soft ADP report earlier in the week and continued ho-hum employment sub-indexes in the ISM non-manufacturing report have put a negative bias into the report. The economist consensus is 215K but that pack of pollyanna’s has been wrong about everything and the market is probably closer to 185K.

breakfast

Typical pre-NFP breakfast