AUD bond yields jump on employment figures

14 September 2017

 

The Australian economy has recorded another month of employment gains and this time it was mostly in the form of full-time jobs. The ABS has released employment estimates which indicated the total number of people employed in Australia in either full-time or part-time work increased by 54,200 during August, which is more than the expected figure of 20,000. Bond yields rose immediately after the release of the figures. By the...

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