Unemployment Rate News
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The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance payments last week held at a four-year low, more evidence the labor market is improving.
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Updated 33 minutes ago
The following is the text of Canada's employment, earnings, and hours report for December released by Statistics Canada.
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Updated 57 minutes ago
German business confidence rose more than economists forecast to a seven-month high in February as Europe’s largest economy bucks a recession that’s gripping the region’s southern fringe.
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Updated 2 hours, 33 minutes ago
Polish retail-sales growth accelerated in January to the fastest pace in nine months, backing forecasts that European Union’s largest eastern economy will resist a contraction in the euro area.
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Updated 52 minutes ago
Europe’s economy will shrink in 2012, with Italy and Spain facing sudden crunches as they battle to escape the debt crisis, the European Commission said.
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Iran’s unemployment rate stood at 11.8 percent in December, Tehran Times reported, citing data from Iran’s Statistics Center.
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Updated 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
As Mitt Romney barnstorms Michigan explaining his opposition to the federal auto bailout, Governor Rick Snyder -- who endorsed him in the Feb. 28 Republican presidential primary -- isn’t leaving the capital for the campaign trail.
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Updated 3 hours, 17 minutes ago
Swedish consumer confidence unexpectedly dropped this month amid rising unemployment and slowing growth in the largest Nordic economy.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. has more than tripled its holdings of mortgage securities without U.S. government guarantees to $72 billion as the nation’s biggest bank bets on borrowers from outside the country it calls home.
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Toll Brothers Inc., the largest U.S. luxury-home builder, fell the most in three months after reporting a surprise first-quarter loss as revenue declined and expenses increased.
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