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US: Private sector employment rises by 106K in January

The data published by Automatic Data Processing (ADP) showed on Wednesday that private sector employment in the US rose by 106,000 in January. This reading followed December’s growth of 253,000 (revised from 235,000) and missed the market expectation for an increase of 178,000 by a wide margin.

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