The latest Jobless Rate Report came out, and it's not pretty either.
Not exact matches
And the improved job market will continue to push the
jobless rate down to 5.4 percent by the end of next year, according to the
latest forecast from the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).
The good news here is that the Federal Reserve has pegged its target interest
rate to the unemployment
rate, saying
late last year that
rates won't rise until the share of the
jobless has fallen to 6.5 % (it is now 7.6 %).
The release showed the
jobless rate for the state's 15 metro areas in November 2016 and November 2017, the
latest data released by the department.
And when the U.K.'s
latest jobs report was finally released, the pound jumped even higher as a knee - jerk reaction because the report looked good on the surface, with the
jobless rate for the three months to September unchanged at a record low 4.3 % and the number of people who claimed unemployment benefits increasing only by 1.1 K in October, which is less than the expected 2.9 K increase.
The state
jobless rate, which hit 12.2 percent in
late 2010, has plummeted to 5.5 percent — not much greater than the state's historic low of 4.7 percent set in 2000.