1.8% prev
- March claimant count change -20.7k vs -29.5k exp vs -29.1k prev rev from -31k
- unemployment rate 5.6% vs 5.6% exp vs 5.75 prev
- average earnings ex bonus +1.8% vs +1.7% exp vs +1.6% prev
- biggest single month rise since May 2011
- ILO jobless falls -76k to 1.838mln total
GBPUSD unfazed by the mixed data at 1.4974 but demand still in the dips
Employment hit a new record high, up 248,000 to 31.049 million, biggest increase in a three-month period since April 2014.
The unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since July 2008 and down from 7.9% at the time of the last election in 2010.
No real standouts on first sight but earnings trend higher still intact really
Full report from the ONS here
