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The
Federal Labor Office said the number of people out of work
increased by 5,000 in seasonally adjusted terms to 2.703
million. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the total to
rise by 20,000.
"The labor market is still holding up well in terms of the
extent of the burdens and uncertainties," said Andrea Nahles,
chairwoman of the Federal Employment Agency.
Nahles noted that 2023 was one of the years with the lowest
unemployment since the reunification of Germany.
The seasonally adjusted jobless rate slightly grew in December
to 5.9%.
(Reporting by Bartosz Dabrowski, Maria Martinez and Holger
Hansen, editing by Miranda Murray)
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