While the expected results would have been positive for the NZD the miss on estimates is not.

  • Miss on Employment change
  • Miss in the jobless rate
  • miss on the participation rate

Softening the blow a little though is is the better than expected wage data.

The results are boxed in the pic below:

nz jobs 03 August 2022

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more to come

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Background to this is here: