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The UK's unemployment rate held steady at 4.2% today, the ONS revealed, as it introduced a new methodology to count the jobless population.
Meanwhile the FTSE 100 is lower for the fifth straight day, and has now lost more than 300 points in the space of a week, with Barclays leading the fallers as its results disappointed the City.