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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

Pound jumps as jobs data fuels interest rate bets

THE pound rallied hard today as markets bet that interest rates are now certain to quickly go higher.

Today the Office for National Statistics reports that unemployment fell to its lowest level for nearly 50 years at 3.7%, while job vacancies remain high.

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