PARIS (Reuters) – France’s unemployment rate fell in the final quarter of last year to the lowest level since 2008, official data showed on Friday, boosting Emmanuel Macron’s economic credentials less than two months from a presidential election. The unemployment rate fell to 7.4% from 8.0% in the previous three months, the INSEE statistics agency said. A Reuters poll of eight economists had an average forecast for 7.8%. That was the lowest level of unemployment since the third quarter of 2008, with the exception of an artificial drop at the start of the pandemic because jobseekers could not l…