Sentences with phrase «continuing fall in unemployment»

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In particular, activity growth has picked up and unemployment rates have continued to fall.

Consumer confidence has been close to record levels, and the labour market continued to strengthen, with the unemployment rate falling in December to its lowest level since 1976.

Eurostat stated that eurozone unemployment was 10.9 % in July, the first time it fell below 11 % since February 2012, while a range of leading indicators (such as the Markit composite purchasing managers» index, the European Commission's Economic Sentiment Index and money supply data) suggest growth has continued apace in the third quarter.

Also, the labour market in Europe continues to make only very slow progress with unemployment falling from a peak of 12.1 % in April 2013 to 10.3 % in January 2016, contrasting sharply with the steeper declines seen in the US and the UK over the past five years.

Most tellingly, the US nonfarm payroll report for June showed that the US economy has continued to create plentiful jobs, which has led to a fall in the unemployment rate to 5.3 %.

Consumer spending in particular exerted a -0.5 % drag on GDP growth, and appears to have continued into the new year with a -0.2 % fall of consumer spending in January despite better employment growth (+1.4 % yoy) and lower unemployment (3.2 % in January).

The unemployment rate continued to fall in April, reaching another post-financial crisis low of 4.4 %, although this was partly offset by a marginal decline in the labor force participation rate.

While all states recorded falling unemployment rates over the year and an increase in the pace of year - ended employment growth in the March quarter, labour market performance continues to diverge.

The onset of a long period in opposition for social democratic standard - bearers such as Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany, coupled with continuing slow growth, high unemployment and falling unionisation, led the parties of the Socialist International into a comprehensive accommodation with neo-liberalism — albeit one wrapped in soothing social market rhetoric and homeopathic concessions at the margins.

As falling GDP, rising unemployment, cuts in wages and pensions, increases in taxes, cuts in public services all continue to bite, the question may not be why are there so many protests in Greece but rather why there aren't more.

The unemployment rate fell to 5.9 %, its lowest point since July 2008, but much of the drop in unemployment stemmed from a continuing decline in the labor force participation rate.

As the unemployment rate continues to drop (fell to 7.4 percent this month from 7.6 percent in July), coupled with the fact the Federal Reserve could end its cycle of quantitative easing (purchasing of mortgage securities keeping rates low), confidence in credit products will slowly start to expand, especially if the mortgage market as we know it ceases to exist with the exit of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

In addition, for those members, recent experience suggested that wage growth could continue to be less responsive to falling unemployment than past experience would suggest.»

Consumer confidence fell as many folks continued to worry about unemployment and overall conditions in the economy.

However, some experts note that even if unemployment continues to fall from its somewhat elevated state, there must be a logical bottoming - out in charge offs and delinquencies.

Employment is falling at its fastest rate since the recession and analysts expect the unemployment total to continue on rising in 2011.

These redevelopments have allowed businesses to expand and this expansion has helped in ensuring unemployment rates continue to fall in the town.

Employment and consumer spending continue strong in 2017 but before the end of the year unemployment stops falling.

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