The dollar fell after the Government reported that the nation's non-farm payroll grew by 255,000 jobs last month.
The current state of the economy was reflected in today's August employment report, which showed that payrolls grew by 365,000 jobs.
According to the exchanges, the payroll of those directly or indirectly employed by the industry has grown to about $250 million.
I think our payroll will grow moderately over time.
He said Fidelity's payroll would grow this year by 4,000 employees - as it did last year - to a total of 24,000.
But more importantly for the foreign exchange market, nonfarm payrolls grew by 323,000, a much larger increase than expected.
Alternatively, say payrolls have grown by 7 million jobs by November 2004.
More than half of the businesses surveyed said their payrolls had grown over the last month.
Not only did payrolls grow by a moderate 175,000, but the February increase was also revised to 293,000, or 46,000 less than initially reported.
Orders picked up this year, its payroll has grown by 200, to 2,600, and machinists are in short supply.