ABS Labour Force Figures, released today, unemployment rate remainded steady at 4.1% ↔ 

Australia: ABS Labour Force Figures, released today, unemployment rate remainded steady at 4.1%. ↔ Theparticipation rate remained at 66.7%. ↔ Monthly hours worked increased to 2,013 million hours. ↑

‍ABS unemployment data

‍China: Bureau of Labor Statistics, released January 19, the unemployment rate remained steady at 5.1%. ↔‍

China unemployment data

‍USA: Bureau of Labor Statistics, released February 11, the unemployment rate decreased 0.1 points to 4.3%. ↓

‍USA unemployment data

‍UK: Bureau of Labor Statistics, released February 17, the unemployment rate increased 0.1 points to 5.2%. ↑

‍UK unemployment data

‍New Zealand: Statistics New Zealand,released February 3, the unemployment rate increased 0.1 points in the fourth quarter to 5.4%. ↑

‍NZ unemployment data‍

Germany: StatisticsGermany, released January 30,the unemployment rate remained steady at 6.3%. ↔

‍Germany unemployment data

‍France: Insee France, released February 10, the unemployment increased 0.2 points in the fourth quarter to 7.9%.↑‍

France unemployment data‍

Spain: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, released January 27, the unemployment rate decreased 0.52 points in the third quarter to 9.93%. ↓‍

Spain unemployment data‍‍

Monthly Consumer Price Index Indicator: released January 28, trimmed mean inflation was 3.3% in the 12 months to December 2025, up from 3.2% in the 12 months to November 2025. ↑

‍CPI monthly indicator ‍

‍Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence: released February 17, ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence,was virtually unchanged at 77.1 this week, near the more than two-year low reached a week ago. Consumer Confidence is now a large 8pts lower than a year ago. ↔

‍Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Report

‍‍ANZ-Indeed Australian Job Ads: released February 2, ANZ-Indeed Australian Job Ads rose 4.4% m/m in January following a downwardly revised 0.8 % m/m decline in December. The trend series rose 1.3% m/m, after a 0.7% m/m rise in December.↑‍

Job Advertisements Series‍‍

Job Vacancy Rates: ABS Labour Force Figures, released January 14, total job vacancies for the November quarter were 326,700 a decrease of 0.2% from August 2025. ↓

‍ABS Jobs Vacancy Data‍

‍RBA Monetary Report: The RBA quarterlystatement on Monetary Policy, released February 3.

‍RBA Quarterly Monetary Report