Portugal's unemployment rate slips to 7.2% in November

(Reuters) - Portugal's unemployment rate slipped to 7.2% in November from 7.5% in October, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said in its flash estimate on Thursday.

The labour underutilisation rate in November decreased by 0.9 percentage points to 14% from the previous month, with the number of those inactive but not seeking a job sliding 8.9%, INE also said.

(Reporting by Joao Manuel Mauricio in Gdansk)