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Macquarie's David Forrester:
1. Employment growth clearly surprised to the downside (actual -0.3K, consensus 13.2K). The only positive aspect on this front was that full-time employment was up 14.5K. But, demand for workers has fallen with aggregate hours worked falling nearly 1% m/m;
2. The unemployment rate was the big surprise jumping to 6.4% from 6%. Labour force participation picked up by 43.4K. It is worth noting that the rise in unemployed people was 43.7K, which suggests that all new people to the labour force went into becoming unemployed. This leaves Strategy sceptical about the jump in the unemployment rate, especially given the survey changes.
3. The ABS denies any impact of the new survey method on the unemployment rate. The ABS released the following statement alongside the labour force data today: "There is no evidence that the introduction of the new active job search steps and the changing of two active steps to passive has had a significant impact on the estimates for unemployment and not in the labour force. In addition, changes in participation and the number of unemployed persons did not occur in a consistent manner across states and territories, males and females, and age groups. This further supports the conclusion that the new questionnaire had no systematic impact on the estimates of unemployed persons and persons not in the labour force." Overall, the data have put a dent in the AUD and Aussie rates and I would expect this dent to last (i.e. AUD will not likely rebound). We think that downside in AUD will be limited, however, as investor scepticism about the unemployment rate reading builds in the market. So, we would not chase the move lower in the AUD. |
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