German labour market undaunted by economic weakness

The German labour market continued to shine in December, shrugging off current economic weakness, with unemployment now at its lowest level since unification, official data showed on Wednesday. The number of people registered as unemployed in Europe's biggest economy fell by a seasonally-adjusted 27,000 to 2.841 million in December, the Federal Labour Office said. The unemployment rate -- which measures the jobless total against the working population as a whole -- slipped to 6.5 percent in