French unemployment rate edges higher to 8.6% in third quarter

PARIS (Reuters) - French unemployment nudged unexpectedly higher in the third quarter despite strong job creation in recent months, official data showed on Thursday.The INSEE official statistics agency said the unemployment rate rose to 8.6% of the workforce in the third quarter from 8.5% in the previous three months.A Reuters poll of 10 economists had forecast on average that the rate would keep declining, as it had in previous quarters, to 8.4%.The increase in the unemployment rate comes even..