The US non-farm payrolls report pointed to an economy significantly worse than believed. The data showed the economy shedding 23K jobs in July, far worse than +80K expected and below any estimates in the survey of economists. Worse yet, the prior two reports were revised lower by a combined 103K jobs dropping the three-month average to just 20K jobs. The US dollar also tumbled against the Canadian dollar as -- at the same time as the US non-farm payrolls report -- Canada's employment report showed 75.1K jobs compared to 15.0K expected. A big beneficiary of the drop in the dollar and the recalibration of Fed rate expectations is gold.