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Australia's January jobless rate jumps to 12-year high of 6.4%
Analysts say that the worse-than-expected unemployment numbers will give the Reserve Bank of Australia further ammunition to cut interest rates next month
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Thu, Feb 12, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Sydney
AUSTRALIA'S unemployment rate jumped to a more than 12-year high of 6.4 per cent in January, official data showed on Thursday, providing further ammunition for the central bank to cut interest rates.
Economists had been expecting a rise to 6.2 per cent from December's 6.1 per cent but with the number of people employed falling by 12,200, it was worse than expected, at a level not seen since August 2002.
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