December Non-Farm Payroll Report (NFP) delayed one week

The heavy-weight [B]jobs and unemployment reports[/B] for the U.S. (as well as the corresponding reports for Canada), normally released on the first Friday of each month, will not be released tomorrow, because of holiday disruptions.

Instead, they will be released one week later, on [B]Friday, January 9, at 8:30 am EST (1330 GMT).[/B]

[U]Anticipated numbers as of today (subject to revision over the next week) are[/U]:

USD — Non-Farm Employment Change — projected to be +321K

USD — Unemployment Rate — projected to be 5.8%

CAD — Employment Change — projected to be -10.7K

CAD — Unemployment Rate — projected to be 6.6%