The market walked into Friday's payrolls report braced for weakness, and the US Dollar Index (DXY) made it pay. Consensus looked for a soft 85K of new jobs in May, the kind of number that fits a cooling labor market and a Federal Reserve (Fed) edging toward cuts.
The US Dollar (USD) trades lower against its major currency peers during the European trading session on Friday.
The number of job openings in the United States (US) came in at 7.618 million in April, up sharply from the revised 6.887 million in March, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported in its Job Openings & Labor Turnover (JOLTS) report on Tuesday.