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UK DATA: UK labour market report due up in just under 10 minutes.
- Unemployment covers the three-month period to March while jobless claims
covers the period to April.
- However, even the more timely measure of jobless claims is of less interest
than normal as the government has been giving regular updates on the number of
universal credit claimants during some of its daily press briefings. This is not
directly comparable but in a press release on 6 May the government said that
since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic around 1.8 million Universal
Credit claims had been made.

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