A slightly better than expected print in the weekly jobless claims: 276K. The four week moving average is at 275.75K, very close to the current read. Also continued claims beat with 2.196 million. Non-farm productivity has been revised to a drop of 3.1% and unit labor costs to 6.7%.

The US dollar is marginally stronger: EUR/USD is at 1.1312, GBP/USD under 1.5390 and USD/JPY at 124.20.

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