FXstreet.com (San Francisco) - In seasonally adjusted terms, the Australian unemployment rate came in much better than expected at 4.9% in April from 5.2% in the previous month, adding 15,500 (0.1%) new jobs to the labor force to total 11,501,000, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported Thursday. The market was expecting a rise in unemployment to 5.3% from 5.2%, and was expecting a fall of 5.5 K jobs. The surprising data has reduced expectations of further rate cuts in the coming months by the Reserve Bank of Australia.