Markets await UK jobs report and German ZEW data – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, including the latest UK unemployment report
- Introduction: Another good UK jobs report today?
- Economists predict unemployment rate will remain at 44-year low
- Coming up: German ZEW survey of confidence
Ouch! Shares in German airline Lufthansa are sliding, after it posted a shock loss for the last quarter.
If the City predictions are correct, the UK’s jobless rate will remain at its lowest level since Harold Wilson was prime minister in 1975.