August’s non-farm payrolls report came out basically in line with expectations (+1.371mn vs +1.400mn consensus).  While we saw a modest downward revision to the July release, the report reinforces the overall “repairs underway” story for the labour market.  Part of this was due to further strong growth in government payrolls (+344k), private payrolls (1.027mn) were rather further from the markets more confident expectations.