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ADP employment data to be released at 12:15 GMT is today's most vital dockets from US to be watched by market participants.
What is ADP employment?
- The report is a measure of non-farm private sector employment which is obtained by utilizing an anonymous subset of roughly 400,000 U.S. businesses which are clients of ADP.
- This data is a very good measure of employment strength of the economy and a good precursor of Nonfarm payroll data.
Previous performance -
- Non-farm private sector employment grew at 169,000 in April, lowest since February last year. In March payroll grew by 189,000.
- Small business sector hiring at 94,000.
- Employment in franchise increased by 16,000.
- 10,000 jobs were lost in manufacturing sector.
- 1000 jobs were lost in goods producing sector.
- Services sector is main job provider. Payroll added 170,000 people in April.
- The chart shows, sector wise employment breakup. Chart courtesy ADP.
Expectation Today -
- Market is expecting rebound job growth with average expectation is 200,000 to be the headline number.
Market Impact -
- Dollar index has taken hard hit yesterday as all major counterparts rose big time against dollar. Dollar would face further challenges if ADP surprises to downside. Dollar index is currently trading at 96.02, up 0.09% for the day.
