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Spain’s July jobless edges up 0.11% from June as uncertainty bites
Date: August 2, 2022
(Reuters) -The number of people registering as jobless in Spain rose 0.11% in July from June, by 3,230 people, leaving 2.88 million people out of work, as economic uncertainty began to be felt, the Labour Ministry said on Tuesday. It is the first time since 2008 that unemployment has risen in July, a month when...
German unemployment rises in July as Ukrainian refugees look for work
Date: July 29, 2022
BERLIN (Reuters) – German unemployment rose more than expected in July, Labour Office figures showed on Friday, as Ukrainian refugees looking for work in Germany are being registered by officials. The Federal Labour Office said the number of people out of work grew by 48,000 in seasonally adjusted terms to 2.463 million. Analysts polled by...
The global recession drum beat is getting louder
Date: July 28, 2022
By Sujata Rao, Dhara Ranasinghe and Vincent Flasseur LONDON (Reuters) – Sharply higher interest rates, red-hot inflation and a prolonged energy crisis are leading to conviction that the world economy is headed inexorably towards recession. It’s a risk U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde have acknowledged even if neither...
Amid clouds on economic horizon, spain’s jobless rate stays below 3 million mark
Date: July 28, 2022
(Reuters) – Spain’s jobless number remained below three million for the second month running, falling to 12.48% in the April to June period of 2022 compared to 13.65% three months earlier, data from the National Statistics Institute showed on Thursday. The quarterly unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since the third quarter of 2008,...
Analysis-Crisis of confidence stifles china’s economic recovery
Date: July 26, 2022
By Kevin Yao and Sophie Yu BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese beef hotpot restaurant chain Baheli, which makes only a third of the revenue it earned before the COVID-19 pandemic, has no intention to resume its expansion, even if authorities bring new infections to zero. The problem, founder Lin Haiping says, is that consumers would not...
Exodus of Ukrainian workers hits europe’s emerging economies
Date: July 25, 2022
By Fanny Brodersen, Anna Koper and Michael Kahn GORZOW WIELKOPOLSKI, Poland (Reuters) – Construction sites, factory assembly lines and warehouses across central Europe are scrambling to fill vacancies after tens of thousands of Ukrainian men left their blue-collar jobs to return home after Russia invaded their country. Ukrainian workers had flocked to central Europe in...