{"id":428480,"date":"2026-03-13T19:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/canada-february-employment-change-83-9k-vs-10k-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T12:40:13","slug":"canada-february-employment-change-83-9k-vs-10k-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/canada-february-employment-change-83-9k-vs-10k-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada February employment change -83.9K vs +10K expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior -24.8K<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Unemployment rate: 6.7% vs 6.6% expected<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Prior 6.5%<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Full-time employment change: -108.4K vs +44.9k last month<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Part-time employment change: +24.5K vs -69.7K last month<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Participation rate: 64.9% vs 65.0% last month<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Average hourly wages (permanent, YoY): 4.2% vs 3.3% last month<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is an awful jobs report. The Canadian dollar is selling off across the board.<\/p>\n<p>StatCan notes that &#8220;employment declines in February were recorded in services-producing industries (-56,000; -0.3%) and goods-producing industries (-28,000; -0.7%). The largest declines were in wholesale and retail trade (-18,000; -0.6%), and &#8216;other services&#8217; such as personal and repair services (-14,000; -1.8%).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior -24.8K Unemployment rate: 6.7% vs 6.6% expected Prior 6.5% Full-time employment change: -108.4K vs +44.9k last month Part-time employment change: +24.5K vs -69.7K last month Participation rate: 64.9% vs 65.0% last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}