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The Greenback weakened against the Eurozone's single currency, following US Non-Farm Employment Change data release on Friday. The EUR/USD currency pair gained 23 pips, or 0.19%, to continue fluctuating in the 1.1971 area.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released three data simultaneously from which two of them: Non-Farm Employment Change data and Average Hourly Earnings data came out lower-than-expected of 164K and 0.1% respectively. However, Unemployment Rate data came out better-than-expected of 3.9% instead of the 4.0% forecast, it was not enough to stop the currency to go upwards.
| Historical Data Table: US Non-Farm Employment Change | Economic Calendar for 04.05.2018 | ||||||||
| Date | 05.01.2018 | 02.02.2018 | 09.03.2018 | 06.04.2018 | 04.05.2018 | 4:00 PM | US FOMC Member Dudley Speaks | ||
| Actual | 148K | 239K | 326K | 103K | 164K | 7:00 PM | US FOMC Member Williams Speaks | ||
| Forecast | 190K | 181K | 205K | 188K | 190K | 9:30 PM | US FOMC Member Quarles Speaks | ||
| Initial Reaction on Main Pairs | SWFX Sentiment Indexes | ||||||||
| Open Price | Close Price | % Change | Longs | Shorts | |||||
| AUD/USD | 0.75208 | 0.75382 | 0.23% | AUD/USD | 68.00% | 32.00% | |||
| EUR/USD | 1.19645 | 1.19877 | 0.19% | EUR/USD | 65.94% | 34.06% | |||
| USD/JPY | 108.956 | 108.786 | -0.16% | USD/JPY | 53.51% | 46.49% | |||
| NZD/USD | 0.70154 | 0.70277 | 0.18% | NZD/USD | 50.47% | 49.53% | |||