UK employment data was mixed - BBH

In view of analysts at BBH, UK employment data was mixed as while earnings rose, the employment continues to fall.  

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“Specifically, average weekly earnings in the three months through October rose 2.5% from the year ago, period, up from a revised 2.3% in September (from 2.2%).  This was in line with expectations. Average weekly earnings rose 2.3%, excluding bonus payments, up from 2.2%.  Earnings growth continues to lag inflation, and may continue to do so through at least the first half of next year.   Meanwhile the three-month change in employment is a loss of 56k jobs, which is the most in a couple of years.  Consider the deterioration.  It is the three-month period through September showed a 14k loss, but through August the average for the year was +118k.”  

“Sterling traded quietly in Asia near the trough seen in North America yesterday near $1.33.  Sterling was better bid before the employment data when it made the session high near $1.3370. It chopped around the highs after the data.  The intraday technicals suggest that is the high is not in place for the day, it was approached.  Resistance is pegged in the $1.3380-$1.3400 area.”