Canada: Employment better than expected – TDS
|Employment growth was stronger than expected in February, with all the new hiring concentrated in full-time positions. The BoC won't change the calculus around monetary policy despite strong jobs, in the opinion of strategists at TD Securities.
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“The Canadian economy created 30k jobs in February, well above expectations for a more modest pace of job growth (TD: 12k, market: 11k) which is the third consecutive month that the LFS has beaten the market consensus.
“We would fade the rising unemployment rate (5.6% from 5.5%) given the 0.1pp increase in the participation rate.”
“Wage growth was another strong element to the report, with average hourly earnings for permanent employees holding in at 4.3% y/y (TD/market: 3.9%) on a 0.7% m/m increase, while hours-worked were even more impressive, rising 1.2% m/m.”
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