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Australia Labour Market (Sep.)

The RBA may not be too worried by the further decline in employment in September since the data are subject to a couple of distortions and since the unemployment rate fell to 5.6% from 5.7%. But the labour market is edging closer to the “deterioration” that RBA Governor Lowe hinted earlier this week could prompt more rate cuts.

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