- 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