• Prior -9.4k
  • Unemployment rate 7.0% vs 7.1% exp. Prior 7.1%
  • Full time changes -18.1k vs +33.5k Prior
  • Part time +59.9k vs -43.0k prior
  • Participation rate 66.1% vs 66.1% exp. Prior 66.1%

So good news then and the fat finger potentially cost some traders a lot of money.

USD/CAD slammed down to 1.0866 from 1.0903

StatsCan say flawed data was an isolated incident and they have full confidence in the integrity of the labour force survey. They say a “human processing error” meant initial jobs data overestimated the full time job losses

Canadian employment change 15 08 2014

Canadian employment change 15 08 2014