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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
City Staff

FTSE 100 Live: Microsoft buying Activision, Goldman earnings miss, oil at 7-year high, THG and Unilever slump

The UK job market continues to improve after new figures showed a better-than-expected unemployment rate of 4.1%.

Vacancies in October to December were also a record 1.25 million, an increase of 462,000 from the pre-Covid January to March 2020 level.

The figures from the Office for National Statistics come with the FTSE 100 index trading at a two-year high.

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