ADP June US employment 132K vs 288K expected

• Prior was +128K

This is the revamped version of the report on private employment from ADP. The new philosophy of the report is that it's less designed to predict non-farm payrolls and more designed to offer a view on the US jobs market. That's a bit of an admission of defeat but the pandemic and subsequent seasonal adjustments threw both reports into disarray.

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