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EUR/USD was mainly ranging today as the markets were undecided whether it is going bullish or bearish expecting the release by U.S. BLS on the November employment situation. After quite optimistic release came out dollar bulls took their ride for a while, but then euro bulls started to push EUR/USD back up keeping it slightly above the average daily range.

Nonfarm payrolls - the main indicator of the U.S. employment situation was at 94,000 in November - an expected continuation of the last month 166,000 increase. But analysts were expecting just 70,000 growth, so the dollar now has some good news to grow on.

Unemployment rate left at the same rate as in October - 4.7%, while markets expected growth to 4.8%. Average hourly earnings increased by 0.5% compared to 0.3% - the average forecast for this indicator.

Some important macroeconomic data was released in U.S. today - employment situation in June from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As it was expected by the financial analysts, the overall unemployment rate in June remained on 4.5% level - which is quite low and is a good indicator for the U.S. economy. Non-farm payrolls in June reached 132,000 which is 7,00 higher than the experts’ estimations. May non-farm payrolls were also revised towards the better side - 190,000 from 157,000. Average hourly earnings came out at 0.3% level (as expected), but May data was revised from 0.3% to 0.4%. Overall, this is a good news for the U.S. economics and dollar as well. The Forex market isn’t playing this data yet (or it won’t) - EUR/USD returned to its 1.3600-1.3650 range, and no serious movement can be seen.