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US unemployment unchanged at 9.7 per cent
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 05 - 03 - 2010

The US jobless rate held steady at 9.7 per cent in February as employers shed 34,000 jobs during the month, dpa quoted the US Labour Department as reporting today.
The department said severe snow storms in parts of the country may
have prevented some new hiring. Construction and information sectors
saw continuing job losses, while manufacturing and retail industries
were unchanged.
The report numbers were better than most economists expected,
helping push stocks up more than 0.5 per cent within minutes of
opening trading in New York. A survey by Bloomberg News had predicted
the jobless rate would climb to 9.8 per cent.
The US labour market has been struggling for months, despite the
fact that the world's largest economy likely pulled out of recession
some time in the summer of 2009.
Hiring of temporary workers continued to increase, adding 47,000
jobs in February. The spike is according to some analysts a sign the
jobs market could be on the mend after months of stiff losses.
The report also revised the past two months' labour numbers
slightly: 26,000 jobs were lost in January, up from an earlier
forecast of 20,000; while 105,000 jobs were shed in December, down
from 150,000.
Businesses cut more than 8 million jobs since the US entered one
of its deepest-ever recessions in December 2007.
US Labour Secretary Hilda Solis said hiring trends were beginning
to point in the "right direction" but acknowledged the jobs market
had yet to embark on a full-scale recovery.
"There's a lot of restructuring that's going on in the economy,"
Solis told US broadcaster CNBC.
The lack of strong job growth has forced US lawmakers to consider
another round of jobs stimulus programmes. The Senate could send a
15-billion-dollar stimulus measure - a mix of tax incentives and
infrastructure spending - to President Barack Obama's desk next week.


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