U.K’s unemployment data…

Wednesday, 20 June 2012 04:18

The U.K’s Office for National Statistics informed today that country’s unemployment data remained unchanged at 8.2% in line with expectations.
Meanwhile claimant count index, which describes number of people applying for unemployment benefit increased by 8 100 in May, which exceeded highly estimates of analyst for 3 100 decline.
As for April, decline reported firstly was revised down to 12 800 people.

The average earnings in U.K. increased in May by 1.4%, which is higher than estimated.

At the time of news release couple GBP/USD was traded at 1.5688.