The third successive monthly increase in the unemployment rate will add to concerns that the recovery in domestic demand is too fragile to offset any slowdown in exports as a result of weakening global demand and the strong yen. In fact the labour market is probably much healthier than these figures suggest, although today's industrial output and household spending data were soft too.
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