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Unemployment shock tempers rate hike expectations

Thursday’s labour force shocker from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which saw the nation’s unemployment rate rise to a five-year high of 4.7% (4.6% in trend terms), has tempered the financial market’s expectations for another interest rate hike. The unemployment rate is now tracking well above what the Reserve Bank had forecast in its The post Unemployment shock tempers rate hike…

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Australian Market Significantly Higher

(RTTNews) - The Australian stock market is trading significantly higher on Friday, reversing the losses in the previous two sessions, following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight.

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