The numbers were leaked earlier today by a French TV station.
- Jobseekers fall -11.1K vs -11.1K leak from earlier today
- Much better than the +16.5K expected
- Total jobseekers 3413.3K vs 3441.0K expected
- Prior was 3224.4K (a record)
The leak was right. This is good news for the second-largest economy in the eurozone but it was already priced in after the leak and did almost nothing to help the euro as it spilled to the lowest in 14 months.