Australian jobless rate hits 27-year low
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CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia&#39;s jobless rate fell to 5.3 percent last month, the lowest level for 27 years, the government said Thursday.
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Japan&#39;s unemployment rate fell 0.1 per cent to 4.8 per cent in August, the government said, as recent signs of a recovery in the world&#39;s second largest economy trickled down to the job market.
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Unemployment fell for the 15th month in a row in August to reach the lowest level for 29 years, official figures showed.
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The number of Americans filing  initial claims for jobless pay fell by much more than expected  last week to 317,000 in the steepest decline in three years,  Labor Department data showed on Thursday.
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U.S. employers added just 146,000 new jobs in January and hiring in the previous three months was revised lower, the government said on Friday in an unexpectedly weak report on the job market, but a drop in job-seekers pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in three years.
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New Zealand&#39;s unemployment rate fell to 3.8 percent in the three months to Sept. 30, the second lowest rate in the industrialized world and the country&#39;s lowest level in at least 18 years.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in auction yesterday to the lowest levels in more than a year.
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The current economic boom in Germany enabled Europe&#39;s biggest economy to hold its jobless rate at the lowest level for six years this month, data showed on Thursday.
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The number of workers seeking  first-time jobless aid fell by 10,000 last week, a government  report on Thursday showed, signaling a relatively healthy job  market.
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New French President Nicolas Sarkozy gets a boost as the jobless total falls to 2.2 million - the lowest since June 1982.
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The number of newly laid off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped last week to the lowest level in 10 weeks.
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Australian unemployment fell to a record low of 5.3 percent in October, prompting analysts to warn that the country's powerhouse economic performance could increase pressure to hike interest rates early next year.
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New Jersey&#39;s unemployment rate fell below the national rate for the 17th consecutive month in September as the state reached an all-time high for employment.
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Australia&#39;s government hasn&#39;t accounted for 27 citizens in Iraq after an Islamic group said it took two Australians hostage, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said.
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Business & money: Wage growth in the public sector slows to lowest level in nine years.
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Germanyâs unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly 15 years in September, dropping to 8.4 percent.
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U.S. employers added just 146,000 jobs in January, the government said on Friday in an unexpectedly weak report on the labor market, but a drop in job-seekers pushed the unemployment rate to its lowest level in more than three years.