Details of the December 2015 US ADP employment data report 6 January 2016

  • Prior 217k. Revised to 211k
  • Small businesses 95k vs 81k prior
  • Medium 65k vs 62k prior
  • Large 97k v s74k prior
  • Service sector 234k vs 204k prior
  • Construction 24k vs 16k prior
  • Manufacturing 2k vs 6k prior
  • Financials 13k vs 9k prior
  • Professional 66k vs 59k prior
  • Trade and transport 38k vs 30k
  • Goods producing 23k vs 13k prior

As usual I've got to wait for the ADP site to finish it's monthly overload crash to bring the breakdown

In the meanwhile it's a good strong number but it's been the pound and euro that have seen the biggest dollar moves rather than USDJPY. GBPUSD was dunked to 1.4604 and EURUSD down to 1.0716

US ADP employment