"Germany's jobless rate dropped to a new post-reunification low of 6.7 per cent in March, bucking the trend in other euro zone countries and bolstering hopes that private consumption will underpin Europe's largest economy this year. Seasonally-adjusted data from the Labour Office showed that unemployment dropped for a fifth consecutive month in March by a stronger-than-expected 18,000 to a total of 2.841 million." (Quoted from article)