The Labour Survey is to be released on Friday - what are the expectations?

Statistics Canada will release the labour survey this Friday December 3 for the month of November and the predictions are strong.

Reuters is predicting job gains of 18,000 - a sharp rise from October's overall gains of 3,000. While the unemployment rate is expected to stay higher than hoped at 7.9%, this reflects a greater number of people reentering the job-hunt and can be seen as an overall improvement in confidence.

Here's a link to the Reuters Preview in full.