Focus on jobless rate after US GDP fall

Name: Focus on jobless rate after US GDP fall
Uploaded: 2013-02-01T11:23:09.000Z
Duration: 1 min 43 s
Description: The sense of optimism over the US economy after avoiding the so-called 'fiscal cliff' took a knock after poor GDP figures for the final quarter of 2012.

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The sense of optimism over the US economy after avoiding the so-called 'fiscal cliff' took a knock after poor GDP figures for the final quarter of 2012.

The next set of economic indicators are the unemployment rate, which was 7.8% in December.

Michelle Fleury reports.

Business

1 February 2013