UK unemployment stayed flat in June and wages rose as expected
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Unemployment came in at 5.6%. Analysts were expecting the unemployment rate to stay flat, and it did.
After a period of rapid decline in 2013 and 2014, the unemployment rate seems to be more steady. It fell to 5.6% and has hovered between that and 5.5% since then.
Earnings, however, have started to pick up. Average weekly earnings (AWE) rose by 2.8%, as analysts expected.
That would have been a very modest increase in pay some years ago, but in real terms it's now relatively decent, since inflation is hovering around zero.
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