13 August 2024 Pound Sterling Outperforms After Unemployment Slips, Wage Growth Surprises

Pound Sterling rose against all major currencies in early trade on Tuesday, driven by a bid in GBP/EUR, after official data showed employment rising and the unemployment rate falling late in the se…

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25 November 2022 Phantom Labour Shortage to Dissipate as UK Unemployment Overtakes Forecasts

Leading indicators suggest job losses will soon drive unemployment higher and that it could climb faster than many forecasters expect, according to Pantheon Macroeconomics, meaning that a commonly-…

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13 September 2022 Pound Cheered by Bullish Labour Statistics

UK jobs data was on balance supportive for the Pound, with the currency rising against the Euro, Dollar and most other major currencies in the wake of the release.

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12 April 2022 Strong Jobs Report Offers Pound Sterling Support

UK unemployment fell to 3.8% in February from 3.9% in January while wages increased, data that should keep the British Pound supported near-term.

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18 January 2022 Pound Sterling's Positive Outlook Underpinned by Consensus-beating Labour Market Reading

Strong labour market data could offer the Bank of England confidence to raise interest rates again in February, maintaining a positive outlook for the British Pound.

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14 December 2021 Pound Sterling: Robust Wage, Jobs Data to Keep UK Currency Supported against Euro, Dollar

UK labour market statistics for the October-November period showed a stronger than expected rise in UK wages, suggesting inflationary pressures in the UK could remain elevated for longer than the B…

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16 November 2021 Pound Sterling Supported on Signs "the Jobs Market is Booming"

The British Pound will take guidance from labour market data due for release on Tuesday as it could determine whether or not the Bank of England raises interest rates in December.

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12 October 2021 Strong Jobs Report Keep Alive Rate Hike Expectations

The latest UK labour market data suggest the UK is all but likely to avoid a major increase in unemployment following the ending of the government's furlough scheme in September, paving the way for…

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18 May 2021 Pound-Dollar Ticks Higher on Stronger than Expected Rise in Employment

The Pound caught a bid on Tuesday in the wake of better than expected labour market statistics, confirming our suspicions that the currency was likely to become increasingly responsive to data rele…

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23 March 2021 Unemployment Might Just have Peaked

The UK's unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 5.0% in January, down from 5.1% in December, suggesting businesses are increasingly optimistic on the economic outlook.

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23 February 2021 Jobs Support Needed Until June says CBI: Employment Data Reactions

The UK Government has been urged to maintain its employment support schemes until at least June after data showed that the UK's economy shed yet more jobs in the final part of 2020.

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10 November 2020 Unemployment Forecast to hit 9.0% in 2021

UK labour market statistics released on Tuesday reveal the economy shed 164K jobs in the three months to September, a figure that was worse than the -148K a survey of economists were expecting.

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21 October 2020 Surge in Job Applications Herald Jump in Unemployment as Furlough Scheme Winds Down

A leading online jobs portal is reporting a jump in job application volumes, confirming economist expectations for a surge in unemployment at the end of the month when the government's Jobs Retenti…

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13 October 2020 September's Rise in Joblessness the Calm before Storm as Turmoil Awaits in Final Quarter 

Britain's labour market showed signs of life in September but not enough to reverse the damage done by earlier coronavirus containment efforst and with the economy now slowing again as more virus-r…

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25 September 2020 "A Tax on Employers" - Economists say Sunak's Job Scheme Won't Stop Tide of Job Losses

Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Winter Plan for the economy hasn't done enough to prevent a wave of Job losses over coming months say Economists, and is being branded a tax on employers by one economist w…

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15 September 2020 "Brutal Period of Redundancies" Ahead: Economist Reactions to UK Employment Data

The UK reported better than expected headline employment figures on Tuesday, however economists remain overwhelmingly of the opinion that the labour market will deteriorate significantly into year-…

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11 August 2020 Pound Sterling Holds Key Levels Against Euro and Dollar in Wake of Better than Expected Jobs Data, but Economists Warn Storm Clouds are Gathering

The British Pound trades above the key 1.11 area against the Euro and 1.30 against the U.S. Dollar in the wake of the release of UK employment statistics that showed the country's unemployment rate…

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16 June 2020 UK Records "Remarkably Small Rise" in Unemployment

The UK added 6K jobs in the three months to April according to the ONS, which was a surprising result for a market that was anticipating a fall in employment to the tune of 83K.

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16 April 2019 Pound Volatility After Germany's Maas Signals Harder German Line on Brexit Extension while UK Wages Show Robust Growth

Sterling volatility was seen on Tuesday after Heiko Maas indicated a harder line will be forthcoming from Germany on any future Brexit extensions,  while the domestic agenda will be dominated …

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19 February 2019 UK Employment and Wages: Solid Data Defy Expectations for a Downturn

The UK labour market appears to be in decent shape with numbers out of the ONS confirming January saw a joint record for the numbers of employed in the UK economy.

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