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Unemployment hits 5% in Japan

27/08/2001

Figures leaked from the Japanese government suggest that the unemployment rate moved up from 4.9% to 5.0% in July thanks to almost a million redundancies in the last few months. The news, coupled with bad trading results, sent the Nikkei 225 index down 2.36% on Thursday, 23 August.

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