Brazil Jobless Falls to 7-Month Low
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Brazil&#39;s unemployment rate fell in July for the third straight month to a seven-month low of 11.2 percent and wages rose, underscoring the strengthening economy, official data showed on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- The number of newly laid off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped last week to the lowest level in 10 weeks.
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WASHINGTONâUS consumers were tightfisted with money amid soaring gasoline costs in August and hurricane-related disruptions last week sent applications for jobless benefits to their highest level in seven months.
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Unemployment in Australia sinks to the lowest level since 1978, giving a further boost to the re-elected government of John Howard.
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The number of Americans filing first- time jobless claims declined to the lowest level in six weeks, suggesting an improving labor market, a government report showed.
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The French unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent of the workforce in July, its lowest reading since March 2002, from 9.0 percent in June, the employment ministry reported.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The economy created another 43,000 jobs last month, pushing the unemployment rate down to 7.1 per cent from 7.2 per cent in August, Statistics Canada said Friday.
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US consumer confidence hits a seven month low ahead of next week's presidential election.
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The current economic boom in Germany enabled Europe&#39;s biggest economy to hold its jobless rate at the lowest level for six years this month, data showed on Thursday.
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Initial claims for U.S. jobless benefits fell to their lowest level in two months last week, but a forward-looking indicator of economic activity suggests cooler growth in the second half of 2007, according to reports on Thursday.
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The number of people claiming jobless benefits has fallen for the eighth consecuetive month in May, official data showed Wednesday.
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Brazil's first working-class president slipped in the polls on the eve of elections Sunday, indicating he may not win a convincing first-round victory but will instead be forced to campaign for another month amid spiraling corruption allegations against his party.
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Consumer prices rose 7.6 percent in 2004 in Brazil last year, the lowest rate of inflation in four years for South America's largest economy, the government said Friday.
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The number of U.S. workers claiming first-time jobless benefits fell 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 328,000 last week, slightly lower than Wall Street expectations, a government report showed.
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Germanyâs unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in nearly 15 years in September, dropping to 8.4 percent.
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The jobless total fell by 67,000 to 1.38 million, the lowest since records began in 1984, the Office For National Statistics said.
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Germanyâs unemployment rate slipped to 8.8 percent in June, from 9.1 percent in May, in a sign of better times for the countryâs economy. The number of unemployed people fell to 3.687 million from 3.812 million in May, according to the state jobs agency. The agency said that 711,000 fewer people were jobless compared with a year ago. Some German officials have even warned about labor shortages for high-demand skills like engineers, a sign of how far the economy has come in reducing the jobless rate from above 12 percent in early 2006.