ABS LABOUR FORCE FIGURES, RELEASED TODAY, UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DECREASED 0.7 POINTS TO 6.8%

Welcome to the September edition of the MyHorizon News Bulletin.
Our overview of the labour market provides the latest unemployment data from across the globe. We also include the Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence report, the ANZ Job Advertisement Series, ABS Job Vacancy data and the DEEWR report.

Australia: ABS Labour Force Figures, released today, unemployment rate decreased 0.7 points to 6.8%, based on unrounded estimates. The participation rate increased 0.1 points to 64.8%, based on unrounded estimates. Monthly hours worked increased 1.6 million hours to 1,683.4 million hours. ↓
ABS unemployment data

USA: Bureau of Labor Statistics, released September 4, the unemployment rate decreased 1.8% to 8.4% ↓
USA unemployment data

UK: Bureau of Labor Statistics, released September 15, the unemployment rate in July increased 0.2 points to 4.1% ↑
UK unemployment data

New Zealand: Statistics New Zealand, released August 8, unemployment decreased 0.2 points in the second quarter to 4.0% ↓
NZ unemployment data

Germany: Destatis Germany, released September 1, unemployment rate held steady at 6.4%  ↔
Germany unemployment data

France: Insee France, released August 13, unemployment decreased 0.7 points in the second quarter to 7.1% ↓
France unemployment data

Spain: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, released July 28, unemployment rate increased 0.92 points in the second quarter to 15.33% ↑
Spain unemployment data

Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence ANZ, Indonesia and China: The latest Roy Morgan consumer confidence in four Asian countries.
Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence ANZ, Indonesia and China

Job Advertisements Series, released September 7, Job Ads rose 1.6% m/m in August, following the 19.1% increase in July. Job ads are still down 27% since February and down 30% y/y ↑
Job Advertisements Series

Job Vacancy Rates: ABS Labour Force Figures, released June 25, total job vacancies in May 2020 were 129,100, a decrease of 43.2% from February 2020 ↓
ABS Job Vacancy data

Department of Employment Monthly Leading Indicator of Employment, released September 16.
Department of Employment, Monthly Leading Indicator of Employment