ABS Labour Force Figures, released today, unemployment rate decreased 0.2 points to 6.4%.

Welcome to the February 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 0.2 points to 6.4%. The participation rate decreased to 66.1%. Monthly hours worked decreased by 86 million hours to 1,667 million hours. ↓
ABS unemployment data

USA: Bureau of Labor Statistics, released February 5, the unemployment rate decreased 0.4 points to 6.3%. ↓
USA unemployment data

UK: Bureau of Labor Statistics, released January 26, the unemployment rate increased 0.1 points to 5.0% ↑
UK unemployment data

New Zealand: Statistics New Zealand, released February 2, unemployment decreased 0.4 points in the fourth quarter to 4.9% ↓
NZ unemployment data

Germany: Destatis Germany, released January 29, unemployment rate decreased 0.1 points to 6% ↓
Germany unemployment data

France: Insee France, released February 16, unemployment decreased 1.0 points in the third quarter to 8% ↓
France unemployment data

Spain: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, released January 28, unemployment rate decreased 0.13 points in the fourth quarter to 16.13% ↓
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 February 1, Job Ads rose 2.3% m/m in January pushing up annual growth  to 5.3%. Job Ads is now at its highest level since April 2019.
Job Advertisements Series

Job Vacancy Rates: ABS Labour Force Figures, released January 13, total job vacancies for the November 2020 quarter were 254,400, an increase of 23.4% from August 2020 ↑
ABS Job Vacancy data

Department of Employment Monthly Leading Indicator of Employment, released January 20.
https://www.employment.gov.au/department-employment-s-leading-indicator-employment-latest-release