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Any optimism for the Canadian labor market?
Information is not investment advice
What will happen?
Canadian Employment Rate and Unemployment Change are announced on April 9, at 15:30.
Since May, which saw the unemployment rate reach 13.7% in Canada, this indicator has been going down until it came to 8.5% in November. After that, however, it started growing again and reached back up to 9.4% in January. February saw a drop to 8.2% - the lowest since the start of the pandemic in March. It was good news as the market was expecting 9.4%.
How to trade the Canadian jobs data?
This time, the expectation is 8.2% for the unemployment rate in Canada. Any major deviation from that may lead to a corresponding reaction in the course of the CAD.
- If the unemployment rate is lower than expected, the CAD may gain value;
- Otherwise, the CAD will drop.
Instruments to trade: AUD/CAD, USD/CAD, CAD/JPY, GBP/CAD
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