German unemployment falls unexpectedly in December
Credit: Reuters/Tobias Schwarz
Workers paint the exterior wall of a temporary art gallery in Berlin, August 18, 2008.
The number of people out of work fell by 15,000 to 2.965 million, the data showed, compared to a consensus of no change in a Reuters poll. The jobless rate held steady at 6.9 percent.
The Labour Office also said that the unemployment rate for the whole of 2013 dropped 0.1 percentage point to 6.9 percent.
(Reporting by Annika Breidthardt and Madeline Chambers)
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