The UK employment rate hit a record high and the jobless rate remained unchanged at the lowest since 1970s in the three months to November, giving room for policymakers to defer a rate cut later this month.
In the three months to November, the employment rate rose by 0.6 percentage points annually to a record 76.3 percent, data from the Office for National Statistics showed Tuesday.
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