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The six-month annualised growth rate in the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Index, which indicates the likely pace of economic activity relative to trend three to nine months into the future, moved into slightly positive territory in October, lifting to +0.35% in October from +0.10% in September.

WPAC comments:

• Leading Index growth rate lifts to 0.35%, moving into slightly positive territory
• Increase marks a step-up from around-trend readings over past six months
• Recent surge in consumer expectations played a big role

Tesla: ⬇️ Sell – Tesla broke support zone – Likely to fall to support level 380.00, Tesla recently broke the support zone between the support level 415.00 (which has been reversing the price from September) and the 38.2% Fibonacci correction.

EURCHF: ⬇️ Sell – EURCHF reversed from resistance area – Likely to fall to support level 0.9210 EURCHF currency pair recently reversed from the resistance area between the key resistance level 0.9325 (which has been reversing the price from October),.

• Canada October employment change +66.6K vs -2.5K expected
• UMich consumer sentiment 50.3 vs 53.2 prelim
• NY Fed survey finds less worry about inflation and more about jobs
• Trump: Talking with Hungary about meetings with Russian Pres. Putin
• BOE's Pill says not to overinterpret removal of the word 'careful'
• Uranium-enriching company jumps after Trump's sons invest
• Thune: I'm willing to give Democrats all they want after reopening
• Fed's Jefferson says that the Fed makes decisions based on data, outlook
• Fed's Jefferson says that difference in opinion among policymakers is a healthy thing

Markets:

• Gold up $26 to $4003
• WTI crude oil up 35-cents to $59.78
• US 10-year yields flat at 4.09%
• S&P 500 up 0.1%
• Bitcoin up 2.4% to $103,557
• CAD leads, JPY lags

A second consecutive non-farm payrolls report was cancelled on Friday as the government shutdown continues but there is some hope for progress on the weekend as lawmakers meeting in Washington and float some proposals. There is still plenty of digging in and bluster but at least there seems to be movement with food stamps and some flights being cancelled.

The mood early in the day was poor and stock markets sold off hard, with the bottom coming at noon ET as Europe went home. Tech led the slump with the Nasdaq falling as much as 2%. From there, the dip buyers started to weigh in but it wasn't until late in the day that strong buying kicked in and brought the S&P 500 into slight positive territory and left the Nasdaq with just at 0.2% loss. It was still a tough week for the NQ, down 3% but not nearly as bad as it as a few hours ago.

In FX, the US dollar hit the lows of the day after a soft UMich survey and some dovish inflation numbers in the NY Fed survey. That saw December cut odds tick up and lifted the euro as high as 1.1591.

The big winner on the day was the loonie on a second consecutive very strong jobs report. The kneejerk took USD/CAD down to 1.4060 from 1.4110 and then the turn in risk appetite dragged the pair down to 1.4030.

Gold briefly jumped on what almost looked like a fat finger as it climbed $35 quickly. It promptly gave it all back though and is winding down the week right at the $4000 level, which is right where it started.