The spectacular 95,000 increase in employment in May is almost the strongest on record and obviously makes up for the unusually soft figures over the previous several months. But the recent volatile nature of these data suggest some caution in interpretation. Nonetheless, it seems clear that the economy is holding up reasonably well this quarter, supporting, for now, the Bank's current policy rate tightening bias.
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