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Australia Just Posted A Crazy Jobs Gain Of 121,000 For August
Wow. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says Australia’s economy added a monster 121,000 jobs in August – a massive print that has everyone bewildered. The market had been expecting 15,000 jobs added. The unemployment rate fell to 6.1%, from 6.4%. So there are now more than 11.7 million Australians officially in work – an all time record. A huge amount of the gains were in part-time employment, which increased 106,700 to 3,609,200. Full-time employment increase 14,300 to 8,094,300. Part of the story here is that the ABS changed its methodology for the labour force survey for the August survey, which many ... (full story)
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