Unemployment rises, eases pressure on interest rates - News.com.au

Story date: 2008-06-12 02:19:00
Added on: 2008-06-12 22:13:25

THE shock loss of 20,000 jobs last month unveiled a new possibility to the economy and the spectre of long jobless queues - that interest rates will stay on hold. The one upside of the gloomy result for the Rudd Government was that there is now ...


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