Breaking: Australia’s Unemployment Rate arrives at 3.9% in December, Employment Change comes in at -65.1K

The Australia’s Unemployment Rate came in at 3.9% in December, compared with the expectations of 3.9% and the previous figure of 3.9%, according to the official data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday.

Furthermore, the Australian Employment Change arrived at -65.1K in December, compared with the consensus forecast of 17.6K and 61.5K jobs addition seen in November.

Market reaction

At the time of press, the AUD/USD pair was up 0.01% on the day to trade at 0.6550.