ABS Labour Force Figures, released today, unemployment rate remained steady at 3.5%.

Welcome to the  October 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 remained steady at 3.5%. The  participation rate remained at 66.6%.  Monthly hours worked decreased to 1,853 million hours. ↔
ABS unemployment data
 
USA: Bureau  of Labor Statistics, released October 7, the unemployment rate decreased 0.2  points to 3.5%. ↓
USA unemployment data
 
UK: Bureau of Labor  Statistics, released October 11, the unemployment rate decreased 0.1 point to 3.5%. ↓
UK unemployment data
 
New Zealand: Statistics  New Zealand, released August 2, the unemployment rate increased 0.1 points in the second quarter to 3.3%. ↑
NZ unemployment data
 
Germany: Destatis  Germany, released September 30, unemployment rate remained steady at  5.5%. ↔
Germany unemployment data

France: Insee  France, released August 12, the unemployment rate increased 0.1 points in the second quarter to 7.4%. ↑
France unemployment data
 
Spain: Instituto  Nacional de Estadistica, released July 28, unemployment rate decreased 1.17 points in the second quarter to 12.48%. ↓
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 Report
     
Job Advertisements Series, released October 4, Job Ads declined by 0.5 per cent m/m in September, following a small downward revision of the August result. But this is only 0.8 per cent below the recent peak in June. This suggests tightness in the labour market is not yet letting up, which is consistent with other indicators.
Job Advertisements Series

Job Vacancy Rates: ABS Labour Force Figures, released September 29, total job vacancies for the August 2022 quarter were 470,900, a decrease of 2.1% from May      2022. ↓
ABS Job Vacancy data
     
DEEWR Report: Department of Employment Monthly Leading Indicator of Employment, released October 19.
Department of Employment Monthly Leading Indicator of Employment

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