Canada sheds 68,300 jobs in September, defying forecasts of a 10,000 gain

The scale of the miss matters more than the direction: a swing of this size against consensus suggests the labour market's recent resilience may have been overstated. For crypto and RWA markets, the read-through is indirect — a softening Canadian labour picture feeds into broader rate-cut expectations, which have been a supportive macro undercurrent for risk assets. The open question is whether this is a one-month distortion or the start of a trend that shifts central-bank language.