Pre-Shutdown NFP Dollar Smackdown

Traders ignore the US unemployment rate's decline to 7.2% and focus on the double whammy of weaker than expected NFP and slowing private payrolls. The 3-month average of NFP fell to 148K, the lowest since August 2012. Next week's FOMC meeting should likely provide additional USD selling as the policy statement will acknowledge the short-term nature of the solution to the budget/debt ceiling impasse as well as the renewed softness in non-farm payrolls. More chart & analysis

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