Here's the latest analytics ahead of non-farm payrolls

It's looking pretty tight among the top five economists on today's NFP number. Here's the league and their guesses;

  1. Nariman Behravesh - IHS Global 195k
  2. Ted Wieseman - Morgan Stanley 205k
  3. Max Clarke - IDEA Global 210k
  4. David Milleke - Union investment 215k
  5. Gregory Daco - Oxford Economics USA 191k

NFP economist performance

Adam's got all the bases covered with the broad expectations and a round up of all the August employment data

Here's how USDJPY has reacted in the last five reports

NFP market reaction

We could well see those upper or lower bounds broken today with such a big focus on the FOMC this month

Deutsche Bank made a case for seeing a sizeable miss today based on historical Augusts

With around 3 hours to go there's still time to enter our NFP competition to win a copy of Greg's book, Attacking Currency Trends

I'll get some levels together for the release and lets see if we can make some money on it