StockMarketWire.com - Australian data released overnight (GMT) has highlighted a much better-than-expected change in unemployment, adding 71.5k jobs in February (expectations were for 9k), which has seen the Aussie dollar push higher against its major counterparts.

Employment Change measures the change in the number of people employed. Job creation is an important indicator of consumer spending.

AUDCHF 0.9876 +0.05%, AUDNZD 1.2649 +0.05%, EURAUD 1.2514 -0.04%, AUDUSD 1.0344 -0.04%, AUDCAD 1.0628 +0.03%, GBPAUD 1.4426 -0.02% and AUDJPY 99.75 -0.02%.



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