AUDUSD Intra-Day Fundamentals - Australian Employment Change and 81 pips price movement

• past data is -13.7K
• forecast data is 12.1K
• actual data is 42.0K according to the latest press release

if actual > forecast (or previous data) = good for currency (for AUD in our case)

[AUD - Employment Change] = Change in the number of employed people during the previous month. Job creation is an important leading indicator of consumer spending, which accounts for a majority of overall economic activity.

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• Employment increased 42,000 to 11,759,600. Full-time employment increased 14,700 to 8,128,600 and part-time employment increased 27,300 to 3,630,900.
• Unemployment decreased 22,000 to 745,200. The number of unemployed persons looking for full-time work decreased 23,500 to 514,500 and the number of unemployed persons only looking for part-time work increased 1,500 to 230,800.
• Unemployment rate decreased 0.2 pts to 6.0%, based on unrounded estimates.
• Participation rate remained steady at 64.7% from a revised April 2015 estimate.
• Aggregate monthly hours worked increased 2.2 million hours (0.1%) to 1,631.8 million hours from a revised April 2015 estimate.

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