{"id":693582,"date":"2010-03-17T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pound-spikes-on-shock-uk-unemployment-data-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-17T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T11:37:00","slug":"dollar-and-euro-slaughtered-by-shockingly-good-u-k-unemployment-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/693582","title":{"rendered":"Dollar And Euro Slaughtered By Shockingly Good U.K. Unemployment Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. was just blessed with a rare piece of good news on the economic front &#8212; on Wednesday the U.K. office of national statistics said that &#8220;the number of Britons claiming unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly in February by the biggest amount since November 1997.&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/17\/177656\/a-uk-labour-boom\/\">Alphaville.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The resulting pound spike was sharp and sudden. The euro was slammed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&nbsp;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4ba0b5c57f8b9ac5781a0500-400-\/chart.gif?w=400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>As was the dollar:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4ba0b6877f8b9ae262960000\/chart.gif?w=400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pound-spikes-on-shock-uk-unemployment-data-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/uk-regulator-bans-ex-merrill-lynch-trader-2010-3\">Merrill Lynch Trader Banned From Markets By UK Regulator <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/moodys-the-us-and-uk-will-be-fine-its-just-that-the-coming-spending-cuts-will-start-riots-in-the-street-2010-3\">Moody&#8217;s: The US And UK Will Be Fine, It&#8217;s Just That The Coming Spending Cuts Will Start Riots In The Street<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dont-look-now-but-the-pound-is-directly-correlated-to-election-polls-2010-3\">What It Means That The UK Pound Is Directly Correlated To Election Polls<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/V_P1Ye0sAPo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. was just blessed with a rare piece of good news on the economic front &#8212; on Wednesday the U.K. office of national statistics said that &#8220;the number of Britons claiming unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly in February by the biggest amount since November 1997.&#8221; according to Alphaville. The resulting pound spike was sharp and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UqO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}